Youth studies : fundamental issues and debates /
"The burgeoning field of youth studies encompasses multiple viewpoints, presenting a confusing picture to novices and experts alike. This insightful text goes to the heart of the fundamental issues and debates that characterize this developing field, giving readers a clearer understanding of it...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Basingstoke, Hampshire :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2014.
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| Summary: | "The burgeoning field of youth studies encompasses multiple viewpoints, presenting a confusing picture to novices and experts alike. This insightful text goes to the heart of the fundamental issues and debates that characterize this developing field, giving readers a clearer understanding of its current progress and future prospects. James Côté's lively, debate-focused overview of the underlying paradigms and theories in youth studies - drawn from the overlapping disciplines of sociology, psychology and cultural studies - functions both as an introduction to the area and as an exercise in critical thinking, putting its readers on the cutting-edge of the field. The chapters move from identifying the key 'threshold meta-concepts' that influence research, to showing readers how to critically evaluate key debates in areas that are central to students' lives, including education, work, family, technologies, youth culture, identity and politics"--Back cover. |
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| Physical Description: | x, 262 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-255) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780230368453 023036845X 9780230368446 0230368441 |