Transitions to Adulthood Through Recession
Youth and Inequality in a European Comparative Perspective
1st Edition
Published on 5. June 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
204 pages
978-0-367-35507-4 (ISBN)
Description
Long-running trends towards increasing inequality between the rich and poor across Europe have been exacerbated by the 2008 global financial crisis and its aftermath. As employment opportunities for young people diminish and as the welfare state is pulled back, pathways to adulthood change and become more difficult to navigate.
Transitions to Adulthood Through Recession consists of a collection of papers by researchers from Britain, Norway, Germany, Portugal, Italy and Greece, locating young people's transitions to adulthood in their national social, economic and political contexts. It explores young adulthood with reference to generational continuity and change and intergenerational support. With a cross-national comparative framework, this volume highlights the importance of variations in structural contexts for young people's transitions.
Bringing together authors across sub-disciplines such as the sociology of youth, family and kinship, class and inequality and life-course studies, Transitions to Adulthood Through Recession will appeal to academic social scientists as well as final-year undergraduate and postgraduate students interested in fields such as political science, sociology, youth studies, social policy, anthropology and psychology; and a wider public readership.
Transitions to Adulthood Through Recession consists of a collection of papers by researchers from Britain, Norway, Germany, Portugal, Italy and Greece, locating young people's transitions to adulthood in their national social, economic and political contexts. It explores young adulthood with reference to generational continuity and change and intergenerational support. With a cross-national comparative framework, this volume highlights the importance of variations in structural contexts for young people's transitions.
Bringing together authors across sub-disciplines such as the sociology of youth, family and kinship, class and inequality and life-course studies, Transitions to Adulthood Through Recession will appeal to academic social scientists as well as final-year undergraduate and postgraduate students interested in fields such as political science, sociology, youth studies, social policy, anthropology and psychology; and a wider public readership.
Reviews / Votes
Against the background of the global financial crisis which has left a legacy of political turmoil and a populist surge across Europe, this book could not be more timely. The contributors offer the reader a comparative understanding of youth inequalities in difficult times. Labour market, family transitions and intergenerational relationships are described and explained from a life course perspective and firmly located in an era of increasing social inequality. The editors are to be commended on pulling together such an excellent collection.Fiona Devine, Head of Alliance Manchester Business School and Professor of Sociology at The University of Manchester, UK
Social change is complicated! This book brilliantly shows and explains how a new generation of young Europeans are living through the consequences of the global financial crisis, recalibrating their expectations and optimising their resources in ways that compound inequality. Empirically robust, theoretically nuanced and rooted in a range of European contexts, this is state of the art youth studies, providing a sense of how we got into this situation, offering the starting point for navigating a more socially just future.
Rachel Thomson, Professor of Childhood & Youth Studies, University of Sussex, UK
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
14 s/w Abbildungen, 14 s/w Zeichnungen, 6 s/w Tabellen
6 Tables, black and white; 14 Line drawings, black and white; 14 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
410 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-367-35507-4 (9780367355074)
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Youth and Inequality in a European Comparative Perspective
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Youth and Inequality in a European Comparative Perspective
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Sarah Irwin | Ann Nilsen
Transitions to Adulthood Through Recession
Youth and Inequality in a European Comparative Perspective
E-Book
04/2018
1st Edition
Routledge
€55.49
Available for download
Persons
Sarah Irwin is Professor of Sociology at the University of Leeds, UK.
Ann Nilsen is Professor of Sociology at the University of Bergen, Norway.
Ann Nilsen is Professor of Sociology at the University of Bergen, Norway.
Content
Acknowledgements
Contributors
Chapter 1 Understanding Youth Transitions in Difficult Times
Sarah Irwin, Ann Nilsen
Chapter 2 Youth research meets life course terminology: the transition paradigm revisited
Ken Roberts
Chapter 3 Transitions from school to work in Norway and Britain among three family generations of working class men
Julia Brannen, Kristoffer Chelsom Vogt, Ann Nilsen, Abigail Knight
Chapter 4 How parents see their children's future: education, work and social change in England
Sarah Irwin
Chapter 5 Biography, History and Place: Understanding Youth Transitions in Teesside
Robert MacDonald, Tracy Shildrick
Chapter 6 Social inequality and the transition to education and training: the significance of family background in Germany
Birgit Jentsch, Herwig Reiter
Chapter 7 Youth transitions and generations in Portugal: examining change between baby-boomers and millennials
Nuno Almeida Alves
Chapter 8 Young people and housing transitions: the role of intergenerational support in an Italian working class context
Elena Mattioli, Nicola De Luigi
Chapter 9 Young people, transition to adulthood and recession in Greece: In search of a better future
Alexandros Sakellariou, Alexandra Koronaiou
Chapter 10 Kinship, community and the transition to adulthood - geographical differences and recent changes in European society
Patrick Heady
Contributors
Chapter 1 Understanding Youth Transitions in Difficult Times
Sarah Irwin, Ann Nilsen
Chapter 2 Youth research meets life course terminology: the transition paradigm revisited
Ken Roberts
Chapter 3 Transitions from school to work in Norway and Britain among three family generations of working class men
Julia Brannen, Kristoffer Chelsom Vogt, Ann Nilsen, Abigail Knight
Chapter 4 How parents see their children's future: education, work and social change in England
Sarah Irwin
Chapter 5 Biography, History and Place: Understanding Youth Transitions in Teesside
Robert MacDonald, Tracy Shildrick
Chapter 6 Social inequality and the transition to education and training: the significance of family background in Germany
Birgit Jentsch, Herwig Reiter
Chapter 7 Youth transitions and generations in Portugal: examining change between baby-boomers and millennials
Nuno Almeida Alves
Chapter 8 Young people and housing transitions: the role of intergenerational support in an Italian working class context
Elena Mattioli, Nicola De Luigi
Chapter 9 Young people, transition to adulthood and recession in Greece: In search of a better future
Alexandros Sakellariou, Alexandra Koronaiou
Chapter 10 Kinship, community and the transition to adulthood - geographical differences and recent changes in European society
Patrick Heady