Age groups and generations

Examines youth cultures at three historical points - 1968, 1988 and 2008 - and argues that present-day youth culture in China has international and local roots.

This book explains the role of ethnicity in group differences across social and psychopathological settings.

An in-depth understanding of the everyday experiences and perspectives of maltreated children and their substitute caregivers and teachers in Japan.

Explores the importance of considering how adolescents coordinate different types of activities in their interactions and in development.

This book comprehensively examines children''s ideas about death, both biological and religious.

This book examines after-school programs, exploring how – and why – young people thrive in good programs and suffer in weak ones.

This book examines after-school programs, exploring how – and why – young people thrive in good programs and suffer in weak ones.

This book comprehensively examines children''s ideas about death, both biological and religious.

Explores the importance of considering how adolescents coordinate different types of activities in their interactions and in development.

Makes the case that the social dynamics and turbulence of high school can disrupt educational trajectories after high school.

Makes the case that the social dynamics and turbulence of high school can disrupt educational trajectories after high school.

This book explores how to make anti-bullying initiatives more successful by developing effective ''personal theories of bullying''.

A wide-ranging and multidisciplinary introduction to the key topics in ageing, for students of gerontology.

Addresses the current debate in Australia and internationally regarding the sexualisation of children.

A wide-ranging and multidisciplinary introduction to the key topics in ageing, for students of gerontology.

Addresses the current debate in Australia and internationally regarding the sexualisation of children.

This book assesses the implications of how children and young people are represented in print media in Northern Ireland - a post-conflict transitioning society.

This new study explores how British youth was made, and how it made itself, over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Focusing on narratives with supernatural components, Karen J.

Bringing together key theories and research in a unique integrative approach, Karen Rosen guides the reader through the fascinating and interrelated themes of attachment and the self.

This book is an academic work which reviews and critiques the research literature concerning violent games and their alleged effects on players.

This book represents a meeting of queer theorists and psychoanalysts around the figure of the child.

This edited collection speaks to and expands on existing debates around incarceration.

This book examines the fan-created combination of Doctor Who, Sherlock, and Supernatural as a uniquely digital fan experience, and as a metaphor for ongoing scholarship into contemporary fandom.

This book is a sociological study of Muslim youth culture in two global cities in the Asia Pacific: Singapore and Sydney.

This book considers the largely under-recognised contribution that young writers have made to life writing genres such as memoir, letter writing and diaries, as well as their innovative use of independent and social media.

This book analyzes the role of manga in contemporary Japanese political expression and debate, and explores its role in propagating new perceptions regarding Japanese history.

This book looks at the humor that artists and editors believed would have appeal in four different countries.

Through an investigation on how Palestinian youth appropriate low-end information and communication technologies (ICTs) and digital media forms, Sanjay Asthana and Nishan Havandjian analyze how certain developments in globalization and media convergence enable young people to create new civic spaces.

What is the child for Latin American cinema?

This book brings together historians, sociologists and social scientists to examine aspects of youth culture.

This book argues that Britain is gripped by an endemic and ongoing panic about the position of children in society - which frames them as, alternately, victims and threats.

This book undertakes an exploratory exercise in decolonizing criminology through engaging postcolonial and postdisciplinary perspectives and methodologies.

This book analyzes the Artists' House, a cultural center in Tehran, to place Iran's social and cultural transformation in a local-global context.

This book explores the use of English within otherwise local-language conversations by two continental European social media communities.

Falling somewhere between childhood and adulthood, 'Youth' is a key period of transition.

This book offers a rationale for and ways of reading popular culture for peace.

This book analyses parental anxieties about their children's healthcare issues in urban China, engaging with wider theoretical debates about modernity, risk and anxiety.

The authors examine youths' practices in digital culture affecting social change, pedagogy, and creative learning practices.

In this book, Faye Woods explores the raucous, cheeky, intimate voice of British youth television.

People play mobile games everywhere and at any time.

This book explores young people's practices and perceptions of sexting and how sexting has been represented and responded to by the media, education campaigns, and the law.

Drawing on comparative country case studies, this book explores student mobility in Europe, incorporating original theoretical perspectives to explain how mobility happens and new empirical evidence to illustrate how students become mobile within their present educational and future working lives.

The demise of state Socialisms caused radical social, cultural and economic changes in Eastern Europe.

With the aspiration for a long life now achievable for many individuals, the status of old age as a distinct social position has become problematic.

Drawing on hundreds of interviews with 15-22 year old straight and gay male athletes in both the United States and the United Kingdom, this book explores how jocks have redefined heterosexuality, and no longer fear being thought gay for behaviors that constrained men of the previous generation.

Within contemporary youth research there are two dominant streams - a 'transitions' and a 'cultures' perspective.

The findings of key reports highlight the need to raise awareness of the failures in health and social care systems to safeguard vulnerable older people.

This book challenges the widely held conjecture that gangs represent 'the new face of youth crime', repudiating claims which situate the gang at the heart of sexual violence, mass shooting and control of the illegal drugs trade and examining how better we might understand the violence of the street and the organisations that inhabit it.

This volume presents a ground-breaking collection of interdisciplinary chapters from international scholars which complicate, and offers new ways to make sense of, children's sexual cultures across complex political, social and cultural terrains.