Age groups and generations

Youth work is a means of promoting learning, equality and inclusion with young people.

Young people, crime and delinquency are words that are commonly linked in public perception and young people are often blamed for social ills.

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.

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.

This lively and engaging book conducts a thorough review of the current research literature in developmental psychology and socialisation, and then clearly links theory to practical applications in both clinical and everyday situations.

Are young people today politically 'apathetic'?

This book contests the idea that lesbian and gay categories are disappearing, and that sexuality is becoming fluid, by showing how young people use them in a world in which heterosexuality is privileged.

Young people are regularly posited as a threat to social order and Deconstructing Youth explores why.

This book explores the literary and cultural history behind certain Christmas and Halloween traditions, and examines the way that they have moved into broadcasting.

This timely volume offers an in-depth theoretical analysis of children's experiences growing up with mobile internet technologies.

This book brings together thirteen timely essays from across the globe that consider a range of 'mediated youth cultures', covering topics such as the phenomenon of dance imitations on YouTube, the circulation of zines online, the resurgence of roller derby on the social web, drinking cultures, Israeli blogs, Korean pop music, and more.

How do Amazonian native young people perceive, question, and negotiate the new kinds of social and cultural situations in which they find themselves?

Many children learn from a young age to tell the truth.

The new go-to text for Early Childhood Studies, this comprehensive book provides an essential introduction to the field.

Drawing on extensive interviews with gang members, this book provides a vivid portrayal of gang life.

Young people in Eastern Europe are more advanced in some global trends than in the west.

This is the most comprehensive analytical study ever done of The Phantom of the Opera in its many different versions from the original Gaston Leroux novel to the present day.

There is a complex relationship between performance, youth, and the shifting material circumstances (social, cultural, economic, ideological, and political) under which theatre for children and youth is generated and perceived.

This book traces the history of youth culture from its origins among the student communities of inter-war Britain to the more familiar world of youth communities and pop culture.

With 70 per cent of its people under the age of 30, Africa is the world's youngest continent.

Sian Lincoln considers the use, role and significance of private spaces in the lives of young people.

This book explores the impact of globalisation and new technologies on youth cultures around the world, from the Birmingham School to the youthscapes of South Korea.

This book examines the everyday living conditions experienced and also shaped by young people in Europe.

This book examines the everyday living conditions experienced and also shaped by young people in Europe.

This book explores the changing nature of growing-up working-class in post-Soviet Russia, a country dislocated by the experience of neo-liberal economic reform.

This book explores the changing nature of growing-up working-class in post-Soviet Russia, a country dislocated by the experience of neo-liberal economic reform.

Delinquency Theories: Appraisals and applications provides a fulsome and accessible overview of contemporary theories of juvenile delinquency.

Delinquency Theories: Appraisals and applications provides a fulsome and accessible overview of contemporary theories of juvenile delinquency.

An anthology of contributions from eleven renowned specialists in the field who deal with topics that effect Arab youth in the Middle East the most, such as demographic growth, rising unemployment, and the difficult prospects of their future.

An anthology of contributions from eleven renowned specialists in the field who deal with topics that effect Arab youth in the Middle East the most, such as demographic growth, rising unemployment, and the difficult prospects of their future.

Fengshu Liu situates the lives of Chinese youth and the growth of the Internet against the backdrop of rapid and profound social transformation in China.

Fengshu Liu situates the lives of Chinese youth and the growth of the Internet against the backdrop of rapid and profound social transformation in China.

Few issues attract greater concern and censure than those that surround youth 'gangs'.

Few issues attract greater concern and censure than those that surround youth 'gangs'.

Winner of the 2013 American Educational Studies Association's Critics Choice Award!

Winner of the 2013 American Educational Studies Association's Critics Choice Award!

First published in 1998.

First published in 1998.

The question of communication and understanding between different generations is emerging as a key issue for the twenty-first century.

The question of communication and understanding between different generations is emerging as a key issue for the twenty-first century.

This book presents an ethnographic study of the experiences of teenage boys in an Australian high school.

This book presents an ethnographic study of the experiences of teenage boys in an Australian high school.

This innovative, ethnographic study of a neighborhood beauty salon investigates how customers constitute a lively, affirming community of peers during their weekly visits.