ISBN:
9781000367713
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (287 pages)
Series Statement:
Youth, Young Adulthood and Society Ser.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.235
Keywords:
Youth-Social conditions
;
Social structure
;
Youth-Economic conditions
;
Agent (Philosophy)
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- List of contributors -- Introduction: History, biography, endurance and empathy: An introductory (thank you) note to the book -- PART I Beyond the agency-structure divide -- 1. Challenging the structure/agency binary: Youthful culture, labour and embodiments -- 2. Subjective understandings of young people's agency: Concepts, methods and lay frames of reference -- 3. The interplay of structure and agency in the school-to-work transition -- 4. The go-between: Young-ish trajectories through a life course agency-structure lens -- 5. Redefining the link between structure and agency: The place of time -- PART II: Agency and structure in historical and generational context -- 6. Structure and agency: An old couple in a new era of prolonged education-to-work transitions amid rising inequalities and declining life chances -- 7. Making a living in a provincial hometown: Locality as a structuring landscape for agency -- 8. Exploring the connection between structure and agency within the context of the young Greek crisis generation -- 9. Fighting adversity with different weapons: Youth, structure and agency in Portugal during the crisis -- 10. Certainties and control in the lives of young men: Stories from three research projects -- 11. Structure and agency in life stories: How to become a gang member -- PART III: Structured agency, reflexivity and action -- 12. Reflexivity in late modernity: Understanding young lives in the context of social change -- 13. What are the chances?: Coping with contingent events in youth -- 14. Youth pathways as process: How factor configuration, time dynamics and reflexivity combine together.
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