Lynne Chrisholm & Peter Büchner 
Growing up in Europe [PDF ebook] 
Contemporary Horizons in Childhood and Youth Studies

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