| Representations of Youth: The Study of Youth and Adolescence in Britain and America Contributor(s): Griffin, Christine (Author) |
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ISBN: 0745677266 ISBN-13: 9780745677262 Publisher: Polity Press OUR PRICE: $52.20 Product Type: Open Ebook - Other Formats Published: May 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Family & Relationships | Life Stages - Adolescence - Psychology | Social Psychology - Social Science | Children's Studies |
| Dewey: 305.235 |
| Series: Feminist Perspectives |
| Physical Information: 253 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Representations of Youth examines the various constructions of youth' and adolescence' in recent British and North American research. Mainstream and radical approaches have presented a series of crises' about young people in relation to, among other things, unemployment, teenage pregnancy' and delinquency'. This book considers research in psychology, sociology, education, criminology and cultural studies in order to assess these accounts. The author offers a critical review of a wide range of findings about young people in areas as diverse as education and training, leisure, family life and sexuality. She shows that whilst youth research texts do not reflect young people's experiences in any straightforward manner, they do indicate the various complex and contradictory ways in which youth', adolescence' and specific groups of young people are represented in contemporary western societies. In so arguing, she presents new terms for thinking about the position of young people today. This is an important new text accessibly written for students of sociology, social psychology and contemporary culture in both Britain and the USA. It will also be of great interest to social science researchers in a range of other disciplines. |