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Representations of Youth: The Study of Youth and Adolescence in Britain and America
Author(s): Christine Griffin (Author)
- Publisher: Polity Press
- Publication Date: 30 Sept. 1993
- Language: English
- Print length: 250 pages
- ISBN-10: 0745602797
- ISBN-13: 9780745602790
Book Description
“Forever Young” examines the various constructions of “youth” and “adolescence” in recent British and North American research. Mainstream and radical approaches have presented a series of “crises” about young people in relation to, among other things, unemployment, teenage pregnancy and delinquency. This book considers research in psychology, sociology, education, criminology and cultural studies in order to assess these accounts. Griffin offers a critical review of a wide range of findings about young people in areas as diverse as education and training, leisure, family life and sexuality. She shows that whilst youth research texts do not reflect young people’s experiences in any straightforward manner, they do indicate the various complex and contradictory ways in which youth, adolescence and specific groups of young people are represented in contemporary western societies. In so arguing, she aims to present new terms for thinking about the position of young people today.
