Jeremy Roche & Stan Tucker 
Youth in Society [EPUB ebook] 
Contemporary Theory, Policy and Practice

′The book is a useful student text that offers a wide range of well informed perspectives on the position of young people in society today. It has built on its successful first edition and should provide a useful springboard to further study′

– Scolag Legal Journal

′This resource will be very helpful to all those already working with children and young people and essential for those who are currently learning about how to work with children and young people′- Gill Frances, Director Children′s Development National Children′s Bureau

Are the recent policy initiatives aimed at improving life chances for young people working? Have they affected those most in need? How can young people be given more of a voice in policy making?

The new edition of this bestselling text offers a comprehensive introduction to the policy developments affecting young people in today′s society, covering the areas of education and training, work, youth justice, residential care and child protection. It brings together a wide-ranging series of readings written by leading experts, to encourage those working with young people, or training to do so, to critically reflect on both the theoretical and practical dimensions of their work.

The themes and issues addressed in this book include: citizenship, participation and empowerment; social difference and social identity; images of youth; young people and the politics of service provision; and working with young people in different contexts.

This new edition has been revised in order to bring it up-to-date on contemporary policy, law and practice changes and developments. Written in a lively and engaging manner, this accessible text will be invaluable reading for students taking courses in youth and social work, social policy, youth and criminal justice and the sociology of youth.

Youth in Society is a set book for the Open University courses K201, Working With Young People and K268, Social Work with Young People.

Inhoudsopgave

Introduction to the Second Edition – Rachel Thomson, Ronny Flynn, Jeremy Roche and Stanley Tucker

The Making and Moulding of Modern Youth – Rex Stainton Rogers

A Short History

Representations of the Young – Christine Griffin

Worlds Apart – Wendy Stainton Rogers et al

Young People′s Aspirations in a Changing Europe

`Pale Shadows′ – Les Back

Racism, Masculinity and Multiculture

Children′s Rights – Jeremy Roche

Participation and Dialogue

Citizens or What? – Tom Storrie

Racial Formations of Youth in Late 20th Century England – Gargi Bhattacharyya and John Gabriel

Young People and Political Participation – Claire Hackett

Youth Working – Stanley Tucker

Professional Identities Given, Received or Contested?

Welfare Services for Young People – Bob Coles

Better Connections?

Education and Training Provision for Young People – Stanley Tucker and Steve Walker

A New Era?

Beyond Bricks and Mortar – Joe Oldman

In and Out of Work? The Changing Fortunes of Young People in Contemporary Labour Markets – Harriet Bradley and Paul Hickman

Youth Justice – John Muncie

Responsibilisation and Rights

Youth Cultures and Sub-Cultures – Daren Garratt

Black Adolescent Identity and the Inadequacies of Western Psychology – Lena Robinson

Technologies of the Self – Maria Pini

Sexuality – Tim Edwards

Constructing a Way of Life – Rex Stainton Rogers

Friends and Lovers – Harriette Marshall and Paul Stenner

Young People and Family Life – Brian Dimmock

Apocalypse Now or Business as Usual?

Young Disabled People – Sally French and John Swain

The Mistreatment of Young People – Brian Corby

The Dilemmas of Intervention – Sarah Banks

You′re the Last Person I′d Talk To – John Coleman, Liza Catan and Catherine Dennison

Working with Young People in Residential Settings – Adrian Ward

The Management of Growing Up – Simon Bradford

Youth Work in Community Settings

Over de auteur

Rachel Thomson is Professor of Social Resaerch in the School of Health and Social Welfare. Rachel has been involved in a major longitudinal qualitative study of young people transitions to adulthood, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council since 1996 through the Children 5-16 and the Young People, Citizenship and Social Change programmes. The study is currently being archived with the support of a grant from the ESRC, and will be made available for secondary analysis (see www.lsbu.ac.uk/inventingadulthoods). Her research interests focus on gender identities, social change, sexuality, values, transitions and popular culture.