Key Concepts in Youth Studies stands out as a natural companion for students on youth studies, sociology, criminology and social science programmes.

Table of Contents

• About the Authors
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction: Making Sense of Young People Today?
• Foundational Concepts, Issues and Debates
• 1 Defining Youth
• 2 Youth Transitions
• 3 Youth Cultures
• 4 Young People and Social Policy
• 5 Working with Young People
• 6 Researching Youth
• 7 Theorising Youth
• 8 The History of Youth
• 9 Young People, Divisions and Inequality
• 10 Representations of Youth
• Major Concepts, Issues and Debates
• 11 Young People and Leisure
• 12 Youth and Crime
• 13 Youth Training
• 14 Young People and Housing
• 15 Young People, Social Networks and Social Capital
• 16 Young People and Wellbeing
• 17 Young People and Gender
• 18 Young People and Sexualities
• 19 Young People and Education
• 20 Young People and the Body
• 21 Young People and Place
• 22 Young People and Religion
• 23 Young People and Music
• 24 Young People, ‘Race’ and Ethnicities
• 25 Young People and Informal Learning
• 26 Youth and Social Class
• 27 Young People, Politics, Protest and Social Movements
• 28 Young People, Work and Employment
• 29 Young People and Globalisation
• 30 Young People and Disability
• 31 Young People and Consumption
• 32 The Youth Underclass
• 33 Young People and Homelessness