A fascinating student introduction to the popular subject of how the media influence young people. Covering all the key topics and full of international case studies, it will be adopted on courses on youth media and youth culture across media studies, cultural studies and sociology
A new youth culture is underway in the Modern Middle East. This culture is based on a concept of youth from the late 1800s, a concept which played a role in the anti-colonial struggle and which influences the way in which youth views itself in relation to traditional values as well as the West
In: International social science journal: ISSJ, S. 125-243
ISSN: 0020-8701
Discusses issues such as reproductive health, education, employment, integration vs. exclusion, distributive justice, rights, obligations, and street youth; international perspective; 10 articles. Some focus on Côte D'Ivoire, Germany, Russia, and southern Africa.
It is generally acknowledged that large youth cohorts or "youth bulges" make countries more susceptible to antistate political violence. Thus, we assume that governments are forewarned about the political demographic threat that a youth bulge represents to the status quo and will attempt to preempt behavioral challenges by engaging in repression. A statistical analysis of the relationship between youth bulges and state repression from 1976 to 2000 confirms our expectation. Controlling for factors known to be associated with coercive state action, we find that governments facing a youth bulge are more repressive than other states. This relationship holds when controlling for, and running interactions with, levels of actual protest behavior. Youth bulges and other elements that may matter for preemptive state strategies should therefore be included in future empirical models of state repression.
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.
On 31 August 2001 in Lima, Peru, Christian Pardo Reyes started a campaign – operating through events and publications – to introduce a quota system to reflect the need to involve youth at all levels of government power. His organisation became the Internacional Juvenil. To achieve its goals, it established strong relationships with other youth organisations, state agencies and influential political leaders. Here Christian Pardo Reyes tells the story.
section 1. Understanding young people, inequality, and youth work -- section 2. Social progress through youth work : welfare and wellbeing -- section 3. section 3. Social progress through youth work : radical and democratic possibilities -- section 4. Themes and conclusions.
The 2011 Arab uprisings led to a great proliferation of studies on the situations in the Arab countries of the Mediterranean, with particular attention given to their young people, whose role was particularly central. Eight years on, in-depth exploration is still needed of the conditions in which millions of (mainly young) people demanded change. In this context, this volume examines the state and diversity of the forms of socioeconomic, political and cultural marginalization facing the region's young men and women, as well as the strategies and routes of contestation by which they escape them. Through the interdisciplinary empiricism of this book, based on the results emerging from the SAHWA Project (funded by the European Commission under the Seventh Framework Programme), we aspire to build a complex description and analysis of the current situation of the Arab Mediterranean youth. The aim is to fathom out young people's patterns, agency and living conditions, focusing on the relational character of the juvenile worlds actively constructed by themselves. The authors explore the main trends that are reflected in the social strategies, cultural constructions and changes within the Arab youth population, and whether the creation of new lifestyles and the emergence of youth cultures are an indicator of sociopolitical transitions. To answer all these questions the researchers have conducted a comprehensive study in five Arab Mediterranean countries: Algeria, Egypt, Lebanon, Morocco and Tunisia. Based on mixed method research the data collection is composed by two primary sources: the SAHWA Youth Survey 2016 (2017), 10,000 young people interviewed, and the SAHWA Ethnographic Fieldwork 2015, involving more than 200 young people.
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