Within contemporary youth research there are two dominant streams – a ‘transitions’ and a ‘cultures’ perspective. This collection shows that it is no longer possible to understand the experience of young people through these prisms and proposes new conceptual foundations for youth studies, capable of bridging the gap between these approaches.

Youth
Young Adulthood
Culture
Transition
Generation
Assemblage
Belonging
Inequality
Consumption
Social Change
Class
Gender
Race
Place
Time
Space
Style
complexity
culture
gender

• Front Matter
• Cultures, Transitions, and Generations: The Case for a New Youth Studies
• Transitions, Cultures, and Identities: What Is Youth Studies?
• Complex Worlds, Complex Identities: Complexity in Youth Studies
• ‘Speaking of Youth Culture’: A Critical Analysis of Contemporary Youth Cultural Practice
• Generations, Transitions, and Culture as Practice: A Temporal Approach to Youth Studies
• Waiting for the Weekend? Nightlife Studies and the Convergence of Youth Transition and Youth Cultural Analyses
• Transitions, Cultures, and Citizenship: Interrogating and Integrating Youth Studies in New Times
• Bourdieurian Cultural Transitions: Young People Negotiating ‘Fields’ in Their Pathways into and Out of Crime
• Sexy Selfies of the Transitioning Self
• Transitioning to a New Manhood: Subcultures as Sites of Inclusive Masculinity
• Youth Political Subjectivity in the Global South: Crossing Conceptual Boundaries in Less Examined Contexts
• Applying Theoretical Paradigms to Indonesian Youth in Reflexive Modernity
• Toward a Different Youth Studies: Youth-and-Researchers as Affective Assemblages
• Transitions, Cultures, and the Future of Youth Research
• Back Matter

University of Melbourne, Australia
Dan Woodman

Griffith University, Australia
Andy Bennett

Book Title
Youth Cultures, Transitions, and Generations

Book Subtitle
Bridging the Gap in Youth Research

Editors
Dan Woodman, Andy Bennett

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137377234

Hardcover ISBN
978-1-137-37722-7
Published: 28 July 2015

eBook ISBN
978-1-137-37723-4
Published: 29 April 2016

Edition Number
1

Number of Pages
XV, 195

Topics
Childhood, Adolescence and Society, Youth Offending and Juvenile Justice, Social Work, Sociology, general, Youth Culture, Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging