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Youth are, by definition, the future. This book brings initial
analyses to bear on youth in the five BRICS countries: Brazil,
Russia, India, China and South Africa, which are home to nearly
half of the world's youth. Very little is known about these youth
outside of their own countries since the mainstream views on
'youth' and 'youth culture' are derived from the available
literature on youth in the industrialized West, which is home to a
small part of the world's youth. This book aims to help fill in
this gap.The handbook examines the state of youth, their past,
present and permits the development of insights about future. The
BRICS countries have all engaged in development processes and some
remarkable improvements in young people's lives over recent decades
are documented. However, the chapters also show that these gains
can be undermined by instabilities, poor decisions and external
factors in those countries. Periods of economic growth, political
progress, cultural opening up and subsequent reversals rearticulate
differently in each society. The future of youth is sharply
impacted by recent transformations of economic, political and
social realities. As new opportunities emerge and the influence of
tradition on youth's lifestyles weakens and as their norms and
values change, the youth enter into conflict with dominant
expectations and power structures.The topics covered in the book
include politics, education, health, employment, leisure, Internet,
identities, inequalities and demographics. The chapters provide
original insights into the development of the BRICS countries, and
place the varied mechanisms of youth development in context. This
handbook serves as a reference to those who are interested in
having a better understanding of today's youth. Readers will become
acquainted with many issues that are faced today by young people
and understand that through fertile dialogues and cooperation,
youth can play a role in shaping the future of the world.
Along with the fast growing economy, the term "BRICs" was coined to
represent the newly emerging countries - Brazil, Russia, India and
China. The enhanced economy in these countries has largely improved
people's life; at the same time, it has also strongly influenced
the transformation of social structure, norms and values. However,
as the world's attention centers on their economic development at
the micro level, the social changes at the micro level have often
been neglected, and a specific comparative study of these four
countries is even more rare. This handbook's contributing authors
are leading sociologists in the four countries. They fill the gap
in existing literature and examine specifically the changes in each
society from the perspective of social stratification, with topics
covering the main social classes, the inequality of education and
income, and the different styles of consumption as well as the
class consciousness and values. Under every topic, it gathers
articles from authors of each country. Such a comparative study
could not only help us achieve a better understanding of the
economic growth and social development in these countries, but also
lead us to unveil the mystery of how these emerging powers with
dramatic differences in history, geography, culture, language,
religion and politics could share a common will and take joint
action. In general, the handbook takes a unique perspective to show
readers that it is the profound social structural changes in these
countries that determine their future, and to a large extent, will
shape the socio-economic landscape of the future world.
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