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Explores the relationships between the electronic dance scene and drug use for young ravers and clubbers. Based on over 300 interviews with ravers, DJ's and promoters, this title also explores the accomplishment of gender, sexuality and Asian American ethnicity and the negotiation of risk and pleasure within these scenes.

In this article a detailed description is given of the subculture of a group of socially-excluded boys in The Netherlands. The relevance of some classical theories on youth subculture is assessed for understanding the lifestyles of today's disadvantaged youth, especially in a developed welfare state. The subculture of the boys is not only an adaptation to their disadvantaged position, but is also an autonomous factor in its reproduction. However, whereas in the 1970s, according to Willis, the subculture of resistance prepared the lads for lower-class jobs, nowadays these boys derive their identity, hopes and masculinity mainly from industrial manual jobs of the past. Four factors are distinguished that are relevant to understand the boys' lifestyle choices: considerations of prestige among the boys, their relations with dominant institutions, the relations between the boys' age groups and the reactions of relevant adults to the behaviour of the boys.

AbstractMentoring through faith‐based programs could reach some of the most severely disadvantaged youth, yet efforts could be undermined if proselytizing occurs.

In this paper, we present a Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR) project that documented an innovative youth empowerment program at a community based organization. The program at the core of this paper is aimed at strengthening cultural brokering, empowerment, civic engagement, and leadership skills by engaging youth as bilingual interpreters at community events to facilitate the participation of adults with limited English proficiency. Through the research-practice integration reflected in our study, we highlight how immigrant youth, engaged in activities that facilitate reflective thinking about their roles as cultural brokers, can be powerfully supported in navigating across their multiple cultural worlds.

This volume offers a critical rethinking of the construct of youth wellbeing, stepping back from taken-for-granted and psychologically inflected understandings. Wellbeing has become a catchphrase in educational, health and social care policies internationally, informing a range of school programs and social interventions and increasingly shaping everyday understandings of young people. Drawing on research by established and emerging scholars in Australia, Singapore and the UK, the book critically examines the myriad effects of dominant discourses of wellbeing on the one hand, and the social and cultural dimensions of wellbeing on the other. From diverse methodological and theoretical perspectives, it explores how notions of wellbeing have been mobilized across time and space, in and out of school contexts, and the different inflections and effects of wellbeing discourses are having in education, transnationally and comparatively. The book offers researchers as well as practitioners new perspectives on current approaches to student wellbeing in schools and novel ways of thinking about the wellbeing of young people beyond educational settings. Katie Wright is an Australian Research Council Fellow (DECRA) and lecturer at the University of Melbourne. Her major research interests concern the role and effects of psychological knowledges and therapeutic discourses in social change, cultural life, and educational contexts. Current research projects include a study of public inquiries into childhood maltreatment, a cultural history of adolescence and schooling, and an investigation of past and present understandings of youth mental health and wellbeing. Recent publications include The Rise of the Therapeutic Society: Psychological Knowledge the Contradictions of Cultural Change (2011).Julie McLeod is Professor, Melbourne Graduate School of Education, and an Australian Research Council Future Fellow (2012-2016). She is Deputy Director of the Melbourne Social Equity Institute and an editor of the journal Gender and Education. Her research areas include gender and education, social inequalities, youth identity, and curriculum history. She is currently working on a history of adolescence and citizenship education (1930s-1970s), a history of school design and pedagogical innovation and a new project is on youth identity and educational inequality since 1950. Recent books include Researching Social Change; Qualitative Approaches (2009), and Making Modern Lives: Subjectivity, Schooling and Social Change (2006).

This article explores the recent approach to youth research & practice that has been called positive youth development. The author makes the case that the approach grew out of dissatisfaction with a predominant view that underestimated the true capacities of young people by focusing on their deficits rather than their developmental potentials. The article examines three areas of research that have been transformed by the positive youth approach: the nature of the child; the interaction between the child & the community; & moral growth. It concludes with the point that positive youth development does not simply mean an examination of anything that appears to be beneficial for young people. Rather, it is an approach with strong defining assumptions about what is important to look at if we are to accurately capture the full potential of all young people to learn & thrive in the diverse settings where they live. 25 References. [Copyright 2004 Sage Publications, Inc.]

Programme for ''Waiting For Future'', a play with music about youth unemployment. The Irish Democratic Youth Movement asked the Cinema-Theatre Workshop of Sinn Fein The Workers' Party to help produce a play on youth unemployment. Date is approx. action takes place in May 1978.

In this article some aspects of the social activity of youth and social policy on creating conditions for social activity of youth in the Republic of Uzbekistan are considered.

Tämä opinnäytetyö tutkii mediaosallistumista käsitteenä ja ilmiönä ja ilmenemistä nuorten keskuudessa. Pääpaino on verkossa tapahtuvalla toiminnalla. Aktiivista mediaosallisuutta ja sen mahdollisuuksia tarkastellaan kulttuurin, politiikan, identiteetin ja alueellisen todellisuuden kautta. Teoreettinen viitekehys rakentui tuoreen media- ja nuorisotutkimuksen kautta. Tutkimuksen erityisenä kohteena ovat keskisuomalaisessa Painovirhe-verkkolehdessä toimivat nuoret (N=9). Heidän mediaosallisuuttaan, kokemuksia ja mahdollisuuksia selvitettiin lomakekyselyn ja haastattelujen avulla. Selvityksen tekemisessä yhdistettiin sekä kvalitatiivista että kvantitatiivista tutkimusotetta. Tavoitteena oli luoda kuva nuoresta ja hänen tavastaan osallistua mediassa kansalaisena. Mediaosallistumien on tämän tutkimuksen pohjalta varsin monimutkainen konsepti. Mediaosallistumisen mahdollisuuksia on paljon, mutta nuorilla on vaikeuksia hyödyntää niitä. Painovirhe-nuoret vaikuttavat varsin tavallisilta nuorilta, jotka eivät näyttäydy poikkeuksellisen aktiivisina kansalaisina. Nuorten asenne verkkovaikuttamiseen on varsin skeptinen, vaikka he pitävät Painovirhe-lehteä sinänsä vaikuttavana mediana. Painovirhe-nuoret kokevat Painovirhe-toiminnan itsessään lisäävän kansalaistaitoja ja antavan eväitä mediaosallistumiseen kansalaisena. Nuoret kuitenkin tarvitsevat tukea siihen, että he rohkaistuvat julkaisemaan omia mielipiteitään mediassa. Toimitustyön käytänteitä voidaan kehittää kansalaisvaikuttamisen vahvistamiseksi. ; This study examines media participation as a concept and as practices particularly among young people. The focus is mainly on online media participation practices. Media participation is examined through cultural and political perspectives, as well as part of youth identity. The theoretical framework is based on the contemporary media- and youth research. The focus group of this study is young editors (N=9), who are involved in the activities by the youth editorial board Painovirhe. Their media participation experiences and ideas about media participation are investigated by using both qualitative and quantitative approaches. The objective of this study is to draw a picture of media participation from the editor´s perspective. On the basis of questionnaire, the Painovirhe editors seem to represent quite ordinary young people. The interview data provide evidence that the socio-demographic background and prior experiences on media affect the amount and the diversity of media participation. Young people's attitude to the online media participation is fairly sceptical, even if they think Painovirhe webzine itself as a medium for participation. However, the Painovirhe editors perceive the activity on Painovirhe itself to increase civic skills and providing tools for citizen participation in the media. Young people seem to need more support on producing civic media content and participate on media as an active citizen.

During the period from 2007 to 2014, and in addition to huge institutional changes, large steps were taken in the field of youth policy in the Republic of Serbia in order to create national resources which would have influence on the improvement of the youth status and life. On the other hand, the practice shows that the existence of the national framework for youth support, as a local service network intended for youths, is not a crucial prerequisite to change the current situation when it comes to improving the quality of life of young people, but that the existence of the critical level of youth activism is a key driving force that leads to changes. This paper presents an overview of the level of youth activism in the city of Belgrade. The results show that young people accept a proactive attitude to life when it comes to their personal or family problems and issues whilst the engagement in the social field and especially a political one are not seen as a preferable type of behaviour.