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Intro -- BRIEF CONTENTS -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLE -- 1: WHAT IS YOUTH? -- Defining youth sociologically -- 'Discovering' adolescence -- Defining youth sociologically -- The sociological imagination -- 'Youth' in social context -- Youth, 'social markers' and the institution of marriage -- Current debates in youth sociology -- Youth transitions -- Youth (sub)cultures -- 'Bridging the gap' -- Social generations -- The 'generation wars' -- The importance of 'structure and agency' debates -- Key readings -- 2: DIMENSIONS OF DIFFERENCE -- Theorizing youth and inequalities -- What is theory? -- Class studies in youth sociology -- Youth as 'an institution' -- Marxist and Weberian responses -- The 'cultural tradition' of class analysis -- The growing influence of Pierre Bourdieu -- Gender and sexualities -- Beyond binaries of gender and sexuality -- Landmark studies of gender and sexuality in youth sociology -- 'Post-feminism' and 'new femininities' -- Masculinities and power -- Youth and ethnicity -- 'New' ethnicities -- Multiculturalism and youth -- Intersectionality -- Knowledge making and the dominance of the Global North -- Key readings -- 3: EDUCATION AND IMAGINED FUTURES -- The massification of post-16 education -- 'Massification' -- The skills revolution -- Human capital and the growth of the knowledge economy -- The impact of the changing nature of education -- From public good to private responsibility -- VET programmes: 'churning' and 'warehousing' the young -- Widening participation -- Social class inequality -- Gender and inequality -- Ethnicity and inequality -- Causes of inequality in post-16 education and training -- A lack of 'aspiration'? -- 'Being a fish out of water' at university -- Family support: cultural, social and economic capital -- Class, work and study -- Why are fewer young men going to university?.

Preface to 4th edition -- Contemporary American youth gangs -- Youth gang violence -- Race, ethnicity, and contemporary youth gangs -- Female gang members and female gangs -- Gangs in western history -- Youth street gangs in other countries -- Pieces of the puzzle : typologies and classical theories of youth gangs -- Theoretical propositions about youth gangs -- Legislative and justice system gang interventions: incapacitation and deterrence -- Prevention and assistance programs: education, employment, opportunity, and -- Empowerment -- The future of youth gangs -- References -- Name index -- Subject index

This study identifies key mechanisms in youth clubs for fostering well-being among vulnerable youths. We develop a framework to conceptualize prerequisites of well-being in youth, namely having a safe place to be, positive relations with others and possibilities for growth. This conceptualization maintains insights from psychological elements of well-being while bringing psychosocial theory of identity in youth into a sociological orientation. Understanding youth as a dynamic and situated phase expands the investigation of both well-being and youth clubs from merely revolving around 'risk' and 'protection'. Based on interviews with youth workers and participants in youth clubs in Norway, the article describes how 'hanging out' in adult supervised but otherwise unstructured spaces provide youths with safety, belonging and a gradual sense of mastery. As such, the club may function as an institutionalized safe space and gives time, a 'moratorium', offering vulnerable youths shelter from adult responsibilities and the acceleration of societal demands.

The present report on Australia is part of the series on "Investing in Youth", which builds on the expertise of the OECD on youth employment, social support and skills. This series covers both OECD countries and countries in the process of accession to the OECD, as well as some emerging economies. The report provides a detailed diagnosis of youth policies in the area of education, training, social and employment policies. Its main focus is on disengaged or at-risk of disengaged youth.

The present report on Lithuania is the fourth of a new series on "Investing in Youth" which builds on the expertise of the OECD on youth employment, social support and skills. This series covers both OECD countries and countries in the process of accession to the OECD, as well as some emerging economies. The report provides a detailed diagnosis of the youth labour market and VET system in Lithuania from an international comparative perspective, and offers tailored recommendations to help improve school-to-work transitions. It also provides an opportunity for Lithuania to learn from the innovative measures that other countries have taken to strengthen the skills of youth and their employment outcomes, notably through the implementation of a Youth Guarantee

The present report on Lithuania is the fourth of a new series on "Investing in Youth" which builds on the expertise of the OECD on youth employment, social support and skills. This series covers both OECD countries and countries in the process of accession to the OECD, as well as some emerging economies. The report provides a detailed diagnosis of the youth labour market and VET system in Lithuania from an international comparative perspective, and offers tailored recommendations to help improve school-to-work transitions. It also provides an opportunity for Lithuania to learn from the innovative measures that other countries have taken to strengthen the skills of youth and their employment outcomes, notably through the implementation of a Youth Guarantee.

Intro -- Contents -- Executive summary -- Chapter 1: Background and methodology -- Chapter 2: Introduction to Ukraine -- Chapter 3: Youth and youth policy in Ukraine -- Chapter 4: Delivery of youth policy in Ukraine -- Chapter 5: Health and healthy lifestyles -- Chapter 6: Employment and employability -- Chapter 7: Patriotic education and citizenship -- Chapter 8: Youth engagement and participation -- Chapter 9: Vulnerability, risk and exclusion -- Chapter 10: Conceptual debates and cross-cutting themes -- Closing words -- Summary of recommendations -- References -- Appendix 1. Programmes of the visits in Ukraine.

For most of the last century, within the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region youth have been addressed and engaged as a particular category of citizens. In this vein youth were viewed as important targets of nationalist projects and as critical national resources in an era of national development. In more recent years, however, the concern with youth has taken on a new tenor both within and outside the region. What had previously been a preoccupation about youth as the region's promise and progress has increasingly become one about youth as crisis and potential threat.

The series Investing in Youth builds on the expertise of the OECD on youth employment, social support and skills. It covers both OECD countries and key emerging economies. The report on Finland presents new results from a comprehensive analysis of the situation of young people in Finland, exploiting various sources of survey-based and administrative data. It provides a detailed assessment of education, employment and social policies in Finland from an international perspective, and offers tailored recommendations to help improve the school-to-work transition. Earlier reviews in the same series have looked at youth policies in Brazil (2014), Latvia and Tunisia (2015), Australia, Lithuania and Sweden (2016), Japan (2017), Norway (2018) and Peru (2019).

Issues that arise in child and youth care practice with transgender (trans) youth and their families can be complex and ethically challenging. While many trans youth are thriving and have strong family and social supports, others face family conflict and experience negative health outcomes linked to societal stigma. The purpose of this paper is to explore how four ethical approaches — bioethics, rights-based ethics, relational ethics, and justice-doing — may be applied to practice situations involving trans youth and their families. This paper is grounded in the gender affirmative model of care and integrates empirical evidence, critical thinking, and explicit argumentation in ethical analysis. Following a brief overview of evidence related to trans youth care, case vignettes are analyzed using diverse ethical approaches. These approaches draw on a variety of philosophical and disciplinary traditions. However, the analyses consistently lead to three imperatives: providing support and affirmation for trans youth; supporting families to support their youth; and fighting injustice where it impedes these goals.