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Informationen zum Autor Gill Jones is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Keele University. Klappentext This accessible book takes a fresh and original approach to the concept of youth, placing changes in the social construction of 'youth' within a more general story of the rise and fall of grand theory in social science. Gill Jones evaluates the current relevance of these wider social theories to understanding youth in late modernity in the light of key examples of empirical work on young people. Individual chapters are organized around the themes of action, identity, transition, inequality and dependence - conceptual themes which cross-cut young people's lives. The book considers the validity of youth as a social concept and examines ways of identifying what is specific to young people without resorting to seeing them as a homogeneous group defined by their age; in so doing, it uncovers notions which are erroneously attributed to young people. Youth represents a thought-provoking challenge to a new generation of social science students, youth researchers and practitioners to distance themselves from the politically- and emotively-charged issue of youth in contemporary society and move further towards re-theorizing the concept of youth in ways which are relevant to young people's lives today. Zusammenfassung An original presentation of the concept of youth - an exciting rethinking of the social construction of 'youth' that explores new ways of theorizing youth without prejudice or lumping 'young people' together as one uniform category. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments vi 1 What is 'Youth'? 1 2 Youth as Action 30 3 Youth as Identity 58 4 Youth as Transition 84 5 Youth and Inequality 112 6 Youth and Dependence 140 7 Youth in Society 164 Notes 184 References 188 Index 214
