Hidden Youth and the Virtual World - The Process of Social Censure and Empowerment

Zusatztext This new book provides a brand new perspective to understand more thoroughly about the young people nowadays! their challenges and the constraints they have to cope with in a post industrialized modern state. Young people are not hidden; they may simply be ignored by many of the adults. - Mark Li! Senior Lecturer! Hong Kong Baptist University Informationen zum Autor Gloria Hongyee Chan – School of Social Sciences, Caritas Institute of Higher Education, Hong Kong Zusammenfassung This book uncovers the truth about hidden youth, the causes, coping strategies, power relations between them and adults in society, and their relationship with the virtual world. . Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction 2. Literature review 3. When Social Censure meets hidden youth 4. The creation and enactment of social censure: From deviant youth to hidden youth 5. The coping strategies and resistance of hidden youth 6. Virtual world and hidden youth 7. Subculture as a platform to empower hidden youth 8. Conclusion and remarks

Product details

• Authors: Gloria Chan, Gloria (City University of Hong Kong Chan, Chan Gloria
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.05.2018
• EAN: 9781138604599
• ISBN: 978-1-138-60459-9
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Routledge Studies in Asian Behavioural Sciences
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Applied psychology; PSYCHOLOGY / Clinical Psychology, Psychology, EDUCATION / Educational Psychology, PSYCHOLOGY / Developmental / Child, PSYCHOLOGY / Developmental / Adolescent, PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health, Educational psychology, Clinical psychology, Child & developmental psychology, Child, developmental and lifespan psychology, Age groups: children, Age groups: adolescents, Social counselling and advice services, Counselling & Advice Services, PSYCHOLOGY / Education, Training & Supervision