List of Figures
Preface and Acknowledgments
Part I: Theorizing Youth
1. Youth and Social Change
Learning Objectives
Introduction
Social Change
Individualization and the Risk Society
Transitions
Social Generation
Subjectivities, Identities, and Social
Change
Summary
2. Class Inequality and Community Resources
Learning Objectives
Introduction
Class and Youth
Young People in the Middle
The Stability of Inequality
Social Exclusion and Marginal Communities
Perspectives on Social Exclusion
Dynamics of
Exclusion
Class Experiences and Young Lives
Summary
Part II: Social Divisions
3. Gender, Sexualities, and Social Difference
Learning Objectives
Introduction
Gender
Sites of Gendered Practices
Gender and Education: What about the Boys?
Sexualities,
Power, and Difference
Summary
4. Peoples, Places, and Ethnic Identities
Learning Objectives
Introduction
Outsiders, Insiders
Constructing the Ethnic Other
Zero Tolerance and Social Identity
Embodying Ethnic Difference
Multiple Identities
Summary
5.
Aboriginal Youth and Social Identity
Learning Objectives
Introduction
Constructing the Indigenous Other
The Indian Act
Dynamics of Indigenous Identity
Identity
Deviance
Work
Education
Beyond Youth at Risk: A Maori Example
Summary
6. Rural
Geographies
Learning Objectives
Introduction
Understanding the Meaning and Changing Nature of Rural, Northern, and Remote
Patterns of Diversity, Change, and Disadvantage
Young People in Rural Communities
Young People's Points of View
Youth First
Summary
Part
III: Social Institutions
7. Youth Policy
Learning Objectives
Introduction
What Is Youth Policy?
Canada's Jurisdictional Complexities and Tangled Hierarchies
International Trends in National Youth Policies
Beyond the State
Futurity versus Youth
Participation
Policy as Process
Young People and Citizenship
The Effects of Policy on Young People
Exclusion
Out-of-Step Policies
Youth Policy and Intersectoral Collaboration
Summary
8. Relating and Belonging
Learning Objectives
Introduction
Families,
Social Change, and Diversity
Young People and Family
Youth, Family, and Discourses of Blame
Risk and Social Division
Summary
9. Schooling Youth
Learning Objectives
Introduction
Education in a Post-Industrial Society
Workplace Restructuring
Young People's
Experiences
Transitions and Educational Ideals
Summary
10. Doing Bad: Juvenile Justice
Learning Objectives
Introduction
Creating the Young Offender
Offender Profiles
Social Factors in Offending
Policing Youth
Community Contexts and Restorative
Justice
Summary
Part IV: Social Identities
11. Working the Multiple Economies
Learning Objectives
Introduction
The Nature of Work
Production Processes and Precarious Employment
Youth Employment Trends
Young People's Responses
Work Opportunities and
Economic Activity
Youth Wages and the Teenage Labour Market
Summary
12. Youth Identities and Culture
Learning Objectives
Introduction
Young People, Society, and Identity
New Identities
Social Practices and Social Identity
Subcultures and Social
identity
Summary
13. Youth in a Digital Age
Learning Objectives
Introduction
Digital Communication and Social Identities
Producing Identities
Citizenship and Cyberspace
Cultural Formation
Cultural Citizenship
Digital Divides
New and Old Forms of Political
Engagement
Harmful Use of Digital Technologies
Summary
14. Defining Well-being and Health
Learning Objectives
Introduction
Health, Well-being, and the Risk Society
Managing Choice
The Risk Society, Individualism, and Health
Young People's (Ill) Health and
Well-being
Areas of Concern
Achieving a Balance
Discourses on Youth Health
Economic Assumptions
Health and Morality
Health as an Individual Property
Risk and Protective Factors
Governmentality
Summary
15. Constructing a Public Presence
Learning
Objectives
Introduction
Youth Spaces in the Public Domain
Youth-Specific Amenities
Youth-Friendly Amenities
Cultural Space and Social Transgression
Street Kids
Youth Street Groups and Cultures
Young Women and Public Space
Public Spaces, Security, and
Safety
Divergent Uses of the Street
Contesting Public Spaces
Summary
Glossary
References
Index
Test Bank:
25-30 multiple choice questions per chapter
25-30 true and false questions per chapter
8-10 short answer questions per chapter
3-5 essay questions per chapter
PowerPoint slides:
25 slides per chapter
Rob White is professor of sociology in the School of Sociology and Social Work, University of Tasmania.
Johanna Wyn is professor and director of the Youth Research Centre, Faculty of Education, University of Melbourne.
Patrizia Albanese is associate professor in the
Department of Sociology and co-director of the Centre for Children, Youth, and Families at Ryerson University. She is the author of Children in Canada Today (OUP Canada, 2009) and Child Poverty in Canada (OUP Canada, 2009), and a co-editor with Lorne Tepperman of Sociology: A Canadian Perspective
2/e (OUP Canada, 2009).
Making Sense in the Social Sciences - Margot Northey, Lorne Tepperman and Patrizia Albanese
Children in Canada Today - Patrizia Albanese
Approaching Youth Studies - Kate Tilleczek
Teenage Troubles - Julian Tanner
Child Poverty in Canada - Patrizia Albanese
Children and Society - Gerald Handel, Spencer Cahill and Frederick Elkin
