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Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Table and Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Contemporary Youth Research: Issues, Controversies and Dilemmas -- Part 1 Youth Research in Context -- 1 Problems and Priorities for the Sociology of Youth -- 2 Mods and Shockers: Youth Cultural Studies in Britain -- Part 2 Principles of Practice -- 3 Framing Youth: Reviewing Locally Commissioned Research on Young People, Drug Use and Drug Education -- 4 Practice-based Research as Development: Innovation and Empowerment in Youth Intervention Initiatives using Collaborative Action Inquiry -- 5 Onions and Apples: Problems with Comparative European Youth Research -- Part 3 Reflections on Fieldwork -- 6 Ethnography in Practice: A Case Study Illustration -- 7 Researching Young Women's Bodies: Values, Dilemmas and Contradictions -- 8 E-heads Versus Beer Monsters: Researching Young People's Music and Drug Consumption in Dance Club Settings -- Part 4 Issues in Ethnography -- 9 Double Exposure: Exploring the Social and Political -- 10 Researching Young People as Consumers: Can and Should We Ask Them Why? -- 11 The Use of 'Insider' Knowledge in Ethnographic Research on Contemporary Youth Music Scenes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Combining institutional ethnography and community-based research, Youth Work is a sophisticated examination of the troubling experiences of young people living outside the care of parents or guardians, as well as of the difficulties of the frontline workers who take responsibility for assisting them. Drawing from more than a year of on-site research at an Ontario youth emergency shelter, Naomi Nichols exposes the complicated institutional practices that govern both the lives of young people living in shelters and the workers who try to help them.

Intro -- YOUTH IN AMERICA TRANSITIONS TO ADULTHOOD AND DISCONNECTED YOUTHS -- YOUTH IN AMERICA TRANSITIONS TO ADULTHOOD AND DISCONNECTED YOUTHS -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1 AMERICA'S YOUTH: TRANSITIONS TO ADULTHOOD* -- SELECTED FINDINGS -- Demographics -- Youth Population -- Living Arrangements -- Birth Rates -- School-Related Characteristics -- School Enrollment -- High School Coursetaking and Advanced Placement Participation -- Reading and Mathematics Achievement -- International Performance -- High School Status Dropout Rates -- College Readiness -- College Enrollment -- Educational Attainment -- Employment-Related Characteristics -- Labor Force Participation -- Young Adult Unemployment -- Median Earnings -- Poverty -- Activities Outside of Work and School -- Afterschool Activities -- Homework -- Volunteer Work -- Health and Wellness -- Health Status -- Personal Safety -- Future Goals -- Educational Expectations -- Educational Progress -- READER'S GUIDE -- Organization of the Report and Data Sources -- Data Analysis and Interpretation -- Classifications of Age Groups -- Definitions of Race and Ethnicity -- DEMOGRAPHICS -- 1. The Youth Population in the United States -- 2. Population Projections of the Youth Population -- 3. Nativity of the Youth Population -- 4. Living Arrangements of the Youth Population -- 5. The Mobility of the Youth Population -- 6. MARRIAGE -- 7. Birth Rates and Births to Unmarried Females -- SCHOOL-RELATED CHARACTERISTICS -- 8. School Enrollment -- 9. High School Enrollment -- 10. High School Mathematics and Science Coursetaking -- 11. Advanced Placement (AP) Participation -- 12. Reading and Mathematics Proficiency of 13- and 17-Year-Olds -- 13. International Reading, Mathematics, and Science Achievement -- 14. Suspensions and Expulsions of High School Students -- 15. High School Status Dropout Rates

AbstractThe youth development movement represents a broad trend toward promoting opportunity and resilience over preventing delinquency and failure. While the topic of youth leadership is clearly relevant to this movement, the connection between the two topics remains for the most part unexplored and undefined. With this chapter we examine the ways that youth leadership connects to the much broader context of the youth development movement.

Lebenseinstellungen und Religiosität von Jugendlichen.

Themen: Einschätzung der Religiosität der eigenen Eltern;
Bedeutsamkeit der Übernahme des religiösen Glaubens durch die Kinder
aus Sicht der Eltern; elterlicher Wunsch der Teilnahme an religiösen
Veranstaltungen; Kirchgangshäufigkeit; Einstellung zu Heirat, Taufe und
Begräbnis im kirchlichem Rahmen; eigene Taufe, Konfirmation oder
heilige Kommunion; Mitgliedschaft in einer kirchlichen Organisation;
Selbsteinschätzung als religiös; Häufigkeit des Gebets und der
Meditation; Bibelverständnis; Einstellungen zu Gott, Sinn des Lebens
und Gefühl der Selbstbestimmung (Skala); Einstellungen zum Verhältnis
von Religion und moderner Welt, zu kultureller und religiöser
Diversität, zum Verhältnis der Religionen untereinander (Skala);
Zustimmung zu folgenden Aussagen: Religion als Sicherheit im Leben,
eigene Erfahrung mit Gottesnähe, konkrete Unterstützung durch Gott
erfahren, Glaube als Gefühl der Geborgenheit, Glaube als Beistand in
bestimmten Situationen, Sinnlosigkeit des Lebens ohne den Glauben;
Vorstellungen über den idealen Religionsunterricht (Skala);
Zufriedenheit im Gemeindeleben (Gottesdienste, Gemeindemitglieder,
besondere Aktivitäten, Angebote für den Nachwuchs, Räumlichkeiten und
Ausstattung); Lebensperspektiven (Zukunftspessimismus, eigene
Gegenwartsorientierung, Absicherung im Privatleben, zukünftige
Herausforderungen, strukturierte Lebensplanung, Nostalgie,
Beständigkeit), Wertorientierungen (Autonomie, Menschlichkeit,
Selbstkontrolle bzw. -disziplin, Attraktivität, Modernität,
Authentizität, Familienorientierung und Berufsorientierung),
Wichtigkeit von sozialen Beziehungen (Eltern, Geschwister, Freunde
etc.); Einstellungen zu Politik (Gleichgültigkeit, Distanziertheit,
Entfremdung, Anomie, Privatsphäre, Beständigkeit, Achtsamkeit,
Zukunftschancen der Jugend und Intergenerationen-Konflikt im
politischen Bereich); politische Partizipation; Institutionenvertrauen;
Einstellung zu Ausländern (Skala); psychologische
Selbstcharakterisierung; Einstellungen zu Europa (Skala).

Demographie: Alter (Geburtsjahr); Geschlecht; Schulbildung;
Religionszugehörigkeit.

Zusätzlich verkodet wurde: Schultyp; staatliche oder Privatschule;
Land.

In the 2010s Russia, government-organized local, regional and national youth forums have become major sites for state-youth interaction. These typically weeklong summer camps are organized across Russia, attracting up to one million participants annually. Although the forums have diverse foci, they are all formal platforms of youth participation, aimed at young people engaging in 'compliant' forms of activism. Drawing from qualitative content analysis of official reports and media accounts combined with participant observation and interview data, this article analyses the forums as a case of youth policy in an authoritarian political setting. It finds that the government treats youth as a 'problematic resource'. Moreover, while the forums' agenda is defined by the policymakers, young people acquire and apply agency to navigate and negotiate the official agenda and re-signify it to respond to their interests. This process, it is argued, has an empowering effect regardless of the constraining authoritarian setting.