Product Description: 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...read more

Product Description: What happens to punks, clubbers, goths, riot grrls, soulies, break-dancers and queer scene participants as they become older? For decades, research on spectacular 'youth cultures' has understood such groups as adolescent phenomena and assumed that involvement ceases with the onset of adulthood...read more

Product Description: A cultural history of global electronic dance music countercultures, Technomad charts a course through an emerging network of techno-tribes, exploring their pleasure principles and cultural politics. Documenting sound systems, secret sonic societies, intentional parties, revitalisation movements and counter-colonial interventions, Technomad illustrates how the dance party has been harnessed for transgressive and progressive ends...read more

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Product Description: This book sets out to show that modern-day fears about the supposed moral threat posed to the young by violent movies or interactive computer games have their roots in nineteenth-century anxieties about the ill effects of popular forms of amusement on the "children of the lower classes...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: How does attitude towards Christianity change during the years of childhood and adolescence? Is it true that attitude toward Christianity becomes less favourable as children grow up and, if so, are there any particular stages associated with this trend? What are the causes or precursors of changing attitude toward Christianity? How important is parental example? How important is the influence of school? How important is the young person's personality? Does religion make any difference to the lives of young people? Are religious young people more or less happy than those who reject religion? Do religious young people espouse different moral values, or hold a different outlook on life? Using data compiled over 25 years of research, this book seeks to provide answers to such questions and outline areas for further study...read more

Tells the stories of eight teenagers who have been disabled by diseases or accidents (view table of contents)

Discusses such topics as independence, self-esteem, relationships, and sexuality from the perspective of teenagers with various physical disabilities

Teenagers present more of their views on such topics as drugs, sex, suicide, and homosexuality and consider solutions to some of the conflicts that divide today's youth.

Teenagers present their views on a number of controversial topics such as race, gangs, homosexuality, and the handicapped.