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"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.
Threshold Meta-Concepts and the Contours of Youth Studies. The youth question -- Theoretical approaches to the youth question -- Seminal debates in youth studies -- The Socio-Economic Influences Structuring the Youth Period. Education and the youth oeriod -- Work and changing employment opportunities -- Family life and parental influence -- The mediated world and technological influences -- The Changing Experiences of the Youth Period. Youth culture : in whose interests? -- Youth identity formation : agentic potentials or inevitable confusion? -- Youth social identities : structurally determined or agentically mediated? -- Youth politics : engaged/alternative or disengaged/resistant -- Conclusions: The future of youth studies. Youth studies' coming of age.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-255) and index.