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Understanding Youth: Perspectives, Identities and Practices
Contributor(s): Kehily, Mary Jane (Editor)
ISBN: 1412930642     ISBN-13: 9781412930642
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
OUR PRICE:   $180.50  
Product Type: Hardcover
Published: March 2007
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Annotation: The lives of young people in the UK, as elsewhere in the world, have changed in dramatic ways in recent years. Important changes have taken place in the social structures and processes shaping young people??'s lives, including changes in schooling and in higher education, the loss of the traditional youth labor market, and shifts in the nature of family and intimate relationships.
Understanding Youth: Perspectives, Identities and Practices addresses the changing context and nature of youth, encouraging readers to understand different conceptualizations of youth, issues of identity and the key social practices that give shape to young people??'s lives in the contemporary period.
Key Features:
  • Introduces the key perspectives, identities, and practices involved in understanding youth
  • Offers a holistic and interdisciplinary approach to young people??'s lives
  • Draws upon rich biographical case studies of young people, emphasizing young people??'s own voices
  • Provides a comprehensive overview of youth in the late modernity
  • Presents a clear and accessible approach to complex issues
This invaluable book will be essential reading for students and practitioners concerned with youth and youth work, and of particular relevance for undergraduate courses across a range of social science and education disciplines focusing on youth in changing times.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Children's Studies
- Psychology | Developmental - Adolescent
- Social Science | Social Work
Dewey: 305.235
LCCN: 2006924444
Series: Published in Association with the Open University
Physical Information: 1.02" H x 7.69" W x 9.68" (2.55 lbs) 368 pages
Themes:
- Topical - Adolescence/Coming of Age
 
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Understanding Youth: Perspectives, Identities and Practices addresses the changing context and nature of youth, encouraging readers to understand different conceptualizations of youth, issues of identity and the key social practices that give shape to young people′s lives in the contemporary period.