Suchergebnisse

1. Making sense of youth problems / Tuukka Toivonen and Yuki Imoto -- 2. From pitiful to privileged? : the fifty-year story of the changing perception and status of Japan's returnee children (kikokushijo) / Roger Goodman -- 3. Narratives and statistics : how compensated dating (enjo kosai) was sold / Sharon Kinsella -- 4. Taibatsu : from educational solution to social problem to marginalized non-issue / Aaron L. Miller -- 5. The "discovery" and "rediscovery" of child abuse (jido gyakutai) in Japan / Roger Goodman -- 6. Hikikomori : how private isolation caught the public eye / Sachiko Horiguchi -- 7. NEETs : the strategy within the category / Tuukka Toivonen -- 8. Shifting landscapes : the social context of youth problems in an ageing nation / Roger Goodman.

Children and youth, regardless of their ethnic backgrounds, are experiencing lifestyle choices their parents never imagined and contributing to the transformation of ideals, traditions, education and adult–child power dynamics. As a result of the advances in technology and media as well as the effects of globalization, the transmission of social and cultural practices from parents to children is changing. Based on a number of qualitative studies, this book offers insights into the lives of children and youth in Britain, Japan, Spain, Israel/Palestine, and Pakistan. Attention is focused on the child's perspective within the social-power dynamics involved in adult–child relations, which reveals the dilemmas of policy, planning and parenting in a changing world