Frontmatter — Contents — Editors‘ Introduction — I. Charting Horizons — Childhood in Europe: a New Field of Social Research — European Youth Research: Tour de Force or Turmbau zu Babel? — II. Childhood, Youth and Intercultural Comparison — The Value Orientations of Young Europeans — Growing Up in Three European Regions — Young People and Employment in the European Community: Convergence or Divergence? — Growing Up in Twelve Cities: the Families in which Pupils Live — III. Childhood, Youth and Social Change — The Cultural Modernisation of Childhood — Growing Up in Southern Italy: Between Tradition and Modernity — Modern Childhood in the Nordic Countries: ‚Dual Socialisation‘ and its Implications — Childhood, Family and New Ways of Life: the Case of Sweden — Changing Family Transitions: Young People and New Ways of Life in France — From School to Work in a Transitional Society: Changing Patterns in Russia — Gender Segregation in the Estonian Labour Market: Stability, not Change — Growing Up and Social Change in Slovenia — IV. Social Circumstances and Cultural Worlds — Difference and Differentiation: Young Londoners‘ Accounts of ‚Race‘ and Nation — Political-moral Attitudes amongst Young People in Post-Communist Hungary — Growing Up on the EU Periphery: Portugal — Gendered Youth Transitions in Northern Greece: Between Tradition and Modernity through Education — Contradictions of Modem Childhood Within and Outside School — Youth Culture in Transition to Post-Modernity: Finland — Childhood and Poverty: from the Children’s Point of View — V. Prospects for Research, Policy and Practice — Rumanian Childhood and Youth Research and Policy in Transition — Young People and Social Transformation: Associative Life in Post-Communist and Independent Slovakia — The Politics of Childhood, Children’s Rights and the UN Convention — Forum — Challenges for Childhood and Youth Policy in European Context — Perspectives for Child and Youth Oriented Policy in the FRG — On the Young Generation’s Situation in the Transformation of Czech Society — Problems and Challenges in Developing European Youth Policies — Youth Policy in the European Union — References — Contributors