Youth, the 'Underclass'' and Social Exclusion

Informationen zum Autor Robert MacDonald is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Teesside Klappentext The idea that Britain, the US and other western societies are witnessing the rise of an underclass of people at the bottom of the social heap, structurally and culturally distinct from traditional patterns of `decent' working-class life, has become increasingly popular in the 1990s. Anti-work, anti-social, and welfare dependent cultures are said to typify this new `dangerous class' and `dangerous youth' are taken as the prime subjects of underclass theories. Debates about the family and single-parenthood, about crime and about unemployment and welfare reforms have all become embroiled in underclass theories which, whilst highly controversial, have had remarkable influence on the politics and policies of governments in Britain and the US, Youth, the `Underclass' and Social Exclusion constitutes the first concerted attempt to grapple with the underclass idea in relation to contemporary youth. It focuses upon unemployment, training, the labour market, crime, homelessness, and parenting and will be essential reading for students of social policy, sociology and criminology. Zusammenfassung Is youth crime, unemployment and homelessness evidence of a new and dangerous youth underclass? Contributors focus on unemployment, training and the labour market, crime and benefit fraud, homelessness, parenting and shifts in youth policy Inhaltsverzeichnis Dangerous youth and the dangerous class, Young people and the labour market, Is there an emerging British 'underclass'? 'Underclassed' and Undermined? Status Zer0 youth and the 'underclass', 'Destructing a giro' A critical and ethnographic study of youth 'underclass, The 'Black Magic Roundabout', Changing their ways: Youth work and 'underclass' theory, Youth, social exclusion and the millennium.

Product details

• Authors: Robert Macdonald Macdonald
• Assisted by: Robert Macdonald (Editor), Macdonald Robert (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.10.1997
• EAN: 9780415158305
• ISBN: 978-0-415-15830-5
• No. of pages: 244
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Children's Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Services, Poverty & unemployment, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Child welfare, Age groups: children, Crime and criminology, Crime & criminology, Age groups: adolescents, Child welfare and youth services, Housing & homelessness, Poverty and precarity, Housing and homelessness