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Exploring the Landscape of Children’s Rights in Sports: A Scoping Review of Research Topics and Approaches in Social Sciences YOUNG (IF 1.342) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Georgios Pavlogiannis, Inger Eliasson, Tor Söderström
The aim of this study was to contribute to the research field of children’s rights in sports by synthesizing the scientific approaches applied and topics addressed in previous social science research focused on children’s rights per se. A scoping literature review was conducted via database searches (Scopus, Web of Science, SPORTDiscus). The search strategy yielded 44 articles eligible for inclusion
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‘We Have Our Own Stories to Write, and We Will Write Them’: Defining Resilience with Aboriginal Young People YOUNG (IF 1.342) Pub Date : 2024-01-20 Reakeeta Smallwood, Kim Usher, Cindy Woods, Vicki Saunders, Debra Jackson
Colonization is understood as a determinant of health for Indigenous people globally. Understanding colonization through a lens of historical trauma offers new insights into the field of Aboriginal young peoples’ health and wellbeing. Grounded in the Indigenous research paradigm, this study conducted interviews with 15 Aboriginal young people living on Gamilaroi Country, New South Wales, Australia
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‘School is the Foundation of Everything’: Master- and Counter-narratives in Lower Secondary School Pupils’ Stories About the Importance of Schooling and Education YOUNG (IF 1.342) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Line T. Hilt, Gunn Søreide, Hanne Riese, Guro Bjørge
Cultural images of the knowledge society and the achievement generation are prevalent in current public and policy narratives about young people’s education. This article investigates how young people themselves give meaning to education, by reconstructing their narratives about the importance of schooling and education in today’s society. We present results from a qualitative in-depth study, consisting
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What My Music Says About Me: Re-evaluating the ‘Badge’ Function of Music in the Context of Streaming YOUNG (IF 1.342) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Juliette P. Gagne
This article re-evaluates Simon Frith’s hypothesis that music serves as a badge for youth identity, based on 15 qualitative interviews with young people aged 17–19 conducted in the fall of 2021. Our findings point to changes in the representation of self through music, as musical preferences are too closely tied to unique identity pathways to provide quick and reliable information about the self to
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Young Adults’ Perceptions of Intergenerational Solidarity and Conflict: The Renegotiation of Compliance with Restrictions During the COVID-19 Pandemic YOUNG (IF 1.342) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Kirsten Visser, Gerald Mollenhorst, Veronique Schutjens, Isabelle Vullings
During the COVID-19 pandemic, mitigating behaviour moved into the moral domain, and compliance with restrictions became tied to issues of intergenerational solidarity. Little is known about young people’s experiences with and attitudes towards coping with COVID-19 restrictions or about the role of intergenerational solidarity and conflict in their compliance. An analysis of 20 in-depth interviews with
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The Impact of Within-family Housing Assistance on the Certainty of Young People’s (Housing) Aspirations in the Czech Republic YOUNG (IF 1.342) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Martin Lux, Petr Sunega
The article presents the results of research on the factors that determine how certain Czech millennials are about their housing and some other life aspirations. We did not primarily look at the content of life aspirations and instead, we examined how certain, confident and concrete young people are about their plans. Using qualitative interviews and an attitude survey we found that intergenerational
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The Good Disobedient Citizen? Students’ Perspectives on Good Citizenship in the International Civic and Citizenship Education Study 2016 YOUNG (IF 1.342) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Katrin Hahn-Laudenberg
Scholars of democratic citizenship and citizenship education have long discussed whether willingness to commit civil disobedience (CD) is an important attribute of citizens to defend and enforce democratic and human rights. In light of the youth protests of recent years, this article examines whether 14-year-old students consider CD important for being a good citizen. Using representative Danish, German
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The Political Dimensions in Discourses of Youth Organizations Operating in Poland: Scope and Dynamics of Changes in the Context of the Russo-Ukrainian War YOUNG (IF 1.342) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Violetta Kopińska
In this article, the research aim was to reconstruct the political characteristics of the discourses of four youth organizations operating in Poland in three intertwined dimensions: content, structure and time. In the content dimension, by using the analysis of the discursive strategies, the focus was on political goals and political features of collective identities. In the structure dimension, by
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Social, Spatial and Material Conditions for Mattering: Newly Arrived Young Migrants’ Possibilities to Matter in Everyday Life in a Swedish School YOUNG (IF 1.342) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Ulrika Lögdberg, Magnus Öhlander, Eva-Carin Lindgren, Bo Nilsson
Mattering as a central part of well-being has not been studied in the context of newly arrived young migrants in Swedish schools. Neither have studies on mattering included material and spatial conditions. This article draws on data collected from ethnographic fieldwork to address this. The theoretical contribution is based on the combination of the concept of mattering with Ahmed’s feminist and postcolonial
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Professional Position Positioned: The Interwoven Experience of Being a Young Adult and New at Work Analysed from a Relational Perspective of Age YOUNG (IF 1.342) Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Anna Berg Jansson, Sven Svensson, Erika Wall
To gain an in-depth understanding of the position of being a young adult and new at work simultaneously, this study examines the doing of age in relation to others in the lives of young adults, rather than focusing on age as a category and/or developmental phase. The study focuses on being a young adult from a critical and relational perspective of age. Based on focus group interviews with young adults
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Place and Youth Political Action: How Place Shapes Political Action in Rural Sweden YOUNG (IF 1.342) Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Maja Adolfsson
There are important gaps in the research on youth political action due to a lack of attention to the roles of place and the experiences of young people in rural places. To address these gaps, this article presents findings from intensive interviews with 15 young people (aged between 16 and 29 years) who identified as politically/socially engaged and lived or had recently lived in a rural place in Sweden
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Participation Rights in Youth Sport: Voices of Young Swedish Equestrians YOUNG (IF 1.342) Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Therese Waerner, Britta Thedin Jakobsson, Karin Morgan, Karin Redelius
The Convention on the Rights of the Child states that all children and young people have the right to have a voice in matters concerning them, in accordance with age and maturity. In the endeavour to make youth sport a safe place free from abuse and harassment, it is crucial to ensure that young athletes can exercise their participation rights. Drawing from an online study involving over 550 Swedish
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From Globalism to Glocalism: Consumption Patterns of Rich Kids and Its Effects on Other Young People YOUNG (IF 1.342) Pub Date : 2023-04-03 Rasoul Afzali, Rouhollah Nosrati, Mosayeb GharehBeygi
Consumption patterns in social groups are diversely affected by global and local processes. Using a mixed approach, this study analyses the consumption pattern of three classes of young in Tehran (...
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Negotiating Multiple Spatialities: Geographies of Youth Educational Subjectivity YOUNG (IF 1.342) Pub Date : 2023-03-16 Marika Kettunen
This article examines the spatial dynamics of youth educational subjectivity formation. Drawing on qualitative interviews conducted in sparsely habited northern Finland, the article focuses on the ...
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European Youth Dialogue as a Governmental Technology: Construction of the Youth Voice YOUNG (IF 1.342) Pub Date : 2023-02-17 Tomaž Pušnik
In recent years, the EU Youth Dialogue (EUYD) gained significant popularization as an important political mechanism through which young people in dialogue with policymakers from the local to the EU...
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Stepping Stone or Trap? Contextualising Precarity as a Sector and Age Phenomenon in the Greek Labour Market YOUNG (IF 1.342) Pub Date : 2023-02-05 Dimitris Parsanoglou, Glykeria Stamatopoulou, Maria Symeonaki
Precarity has been consolidated as a central concept in theoretical and political discussions around labour market(s) and labour relations and conditions. Moreover, it has strongly been linked with...
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First-Generation College Students’ Motives to Start University Education: An Investment in Self- Development, One’s Economic Prospects or to Become a Role Model? YOUNG (IF 1.342) Pub Date : 2023-01-30 Gil Keppens, Simon Boone, Els Consuegra, Ilse Laurijssen, Bram Spruyt, Filip Van Droogenbroeck
In this article, we engage with the emerging literature that studies the increased enrolment of first-generation college students (FGCS), that is, students from households where neither parent has ...
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Young People and Subjective Employment Insecurity: Evidence from the Finnish Youth Barometer between 2009 and 2019 YOUNG (IF 1.342) Pub Date : 2022-10-14 Lotta Haikkola, Riku Laine, Tuuli Pitkänen
Although broad labour market transformations have altered employment prospects for young people in the Global North, young people remain optimistic about their future employment opportunities. Howe...
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‘Like the Oceans We Rise’: News Frames on Youth for Climate YOUNG (IF 1.342) Pub Date : 2022-09-03 Freija Poot, Joke Bauwens
In early 2019, following the example of the Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, youth-led climate movements around the world demonstrated massively and persistently for a more ambitious climat...
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Slow Time, School Time, and Strange Times: Opposing and Entangled Discourses on Temporality in Teenagers’ Everyday Lives During a Pandemic YOUNG (IF 1.342) Pub Date : 2022-08-26 Ann-Charlotte Palmgren
In Spring 2020, the Finnish government declared a state of emergency over the Coronavirus outbreak, which lead to schools moving to remote teaching, cancelling all kind of event in society, recomme...
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EPA (aka A-Traktor) Girl Greasers in Sweden: Girlhood in Motion? YOUNG (IF 1.342) Pub Date : 2022-07-31 Sara Alemir, Katarina Giritli Nygren, Sara Nyhlén
This article focuses on girlhood in one of the youth subcultures of rural Sweden, EPA greasers. The EPA, a car that Swedes aged 15 and older can legally drive, is at the centre of EPA culture. In t...
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‘I Just Don’t Drink’: Examining the Experiences of Young Adult Abstainers in Australia’s Changing Drinking Trends YOUNG (IF 1.342) Pub Date : 2022-07-25 Nicola Rahman, Ernesta Sofija, Bernadette Sebar
Increasing numbers of young adults in Australia are choosing to abstain from alcohol. Research demonstrates young adults encounter difficulties when choosing to abstain in settings where alcohol co...
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Legacy and Rupture: The Political Learning of Young Left-wing Basque Nationalists in the Post-ETA Period YOUNG (IF 1.342) Pub Date : 2022-07-21 Ane Larrinaga, Mila Amurrio
The article examines ways in which the left-wing nationalist movement in the Basque Country has offered a framework of opportunity for the construction of activist youth agency. It also identifies ...
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‘You Can’t Do Anything Right’: How Adolescents Experience and Navigate the Achievement Imperative on Social Media YOUNG (IF 1.342) Pub Date : 2022-07-18 Søren Christian Krogh
The rise in mental health issues among youth has been linked to an emergence of an achievement imperative, causing a rise in personal expectations and achievement demands, with social media highlig...
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Book review: Cynthia Miller-Idriss, Hate in the Homeland: The New Global Far Right YOUNG (IF 1.342) Pub Date : 2022-05-12 Katrine Fangen
Cynthia Miller-Idriss, Hate in the Homeland: The New Global Far Right. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020. ISBN 9780691203836.
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Being NEET in Youthspaces of the EU South: A Post-recession Regional Perspective YOUNG (IF 1.342) Pub Date : 2022-05-06 Athina Avagianou, Nikos Kapitsinis, Ioannis Papageorgiou, Anne Hege Strand, Stelios Gialis
Youth unemployment and precarity have been expanding in the aftermath of the recent global recession. This article offers a theoretically informed empirical examination of the spatio-temporally une...
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Shame, Anger and the Lived Experience of School Disengagement for Marginalised Students: A Recognition Theory Approach YOUNG (IF 1.342) Pub Date : 2022-04-28 Maja Lindegaard Moensted
Experiences at school are fundamental in shaping young people’s worldviews, sense of worth and willingness to engage, not only at school but also with wider society. This article seeks to gain a de...
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Between Return and Resistance: Rap as a Means of Access to Engagement and Empowerment Among French Hmong Youth YOUNG (IF 1.342) Pub Date : 2022-04-21 Tian Shi
This article aims to discuss how diasporic Hmong youth express nostalgia and resistance through rap music, transmit collective memory, encourage young people to question social and political structures, and engage in public life. Based on fieldwork in France, this article explores how French Hmong rap artists convert their nostalgia, experience and in-betweenness into the sound space. This article
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Seen and Heard: The Long-Term Impact of Arts Projects on Young People Living in Poverty YOUNG (IF 1.342) Pub Date : 2022-04-08 Briege Nugent, Kate Deacon
This article presents unique findings from research in Scotland of the long-term impact of arts projects on young people living in poverty. Through the support of creative skilled practitioners sensitive to their challenges, these initiatives provided spaces of inspiration for young people to feel seen and heard, and their area not completely forgotten. Crucially, this promoted bridging social capital
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Head-first into Upper Secondary Education: Finnish Young People Making Classed and Gendered Educational Choices YOUNG (IF 1.342) Pub Date : 2022-03-29 Tarja Tolonen, Sinikka Aapola-Kari
In this article, we analyse the narratives of Finnish young people regarding their educational choices for upper secondary education in a theoretical framework inspired by Bourdieu’s forms of capital and Skeggs’ concept of the classed value of self. Our data consist of interviews with 66 ninth-graders, produced in the Youth in Time research project. In the narratives, we identified six frames of choice
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Pathways to Aesthetic Education in a World of Profitability YOUNG (IF 1.342) Pub Date : 2022-03-29 Majsa Allelin
The cultural sector has become an important part of the ‘new economy’ and has affected artistic practices as well as the road to becoming an artist. By discussing two female students’ paths to aesthetic education, the article sheds light on some of the sociopolitical and economic conditions that students in transition between elementary and upper secondary school in Sweden encounter when entering aesthetic
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Parent–Adolescent Political Disagreement and Adolescent Political Development amid Duterte’s Presidency: A Positioning Analysis YOUNG (IF 1.342) Pub Date : 2022-03-29 Lance Calvin L. Gamboa, Athena May Jean M. Carangan, Julia Izah S. Agida
Despite its significant ramifications on promoting youth political competence, literature has paid little attention to parent–adolescent political disagreement and the relational dynamics underlying the phenomenon. Our study deploys positioning analysis to examine how Filipino adolescents navigate conflict-filled parent–adolescent political discussions, especially those in relation to President Rodrigo
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‘I Think It’ll All Blow Over in the End’: How Young People Perceive the Impact of COVID-19 on Their Future Orientations YOUNG (IF 1.342) Pub Date : 2022-03-28 Juul H. D. Henkens, Kirsten Visser, Catrin Finkenauer, Gonneke W. J. M. Stevens
Since the beginning of 2020, the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and its lockdowns have changed the current lives of young people drastically. Given the importance of future orientations for young people’s mental well-being, it is important to investigate if and how this lockdown affected young people’s future orientations. In this study, 34 Dutch young people (aged 16–24) with diverse backgrounds were
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Everyday Violence and Crosscutting Conditions Shaping Social and Political Dimensions of Unsafety in Youth Activism YOUNG (IF 1.342) Pub Date : 2022-03-27 Anna-Britt Coe
Existing research addresses violence in youth activism from two directions, broader societal violence or specific violence targeting political action. Nonetheless, these are explored separately according to type of activism, suggesting that this is the most relevant factor shaping violence in youth activism. This article captures other crucial factors by exploring both directions together and bringing
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Skateboarding: From Urban Spaces to Subcultural Olympians YOUNG (IF 1.342) Pub Date : 2022-03-24 Åsa Bäckström,Shane Blackman
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Political Trust in Early Adolescence and Its Association with Intended Political Participation: A Cross-sectional Study Situated in Flanders YOUNG (IF 1.342) Pub Date : 2022-03-03 Linde Stals, Maria Magdalena Isac, Ellen Claes
Empirical research on the relationship between political trust and political participation has rarely focused on adolescents. By acknowledging the important role of young people for the sustainability of representative democracies, this study considers a two-dimensional conceptualization of political trust—that is, distinguishing between trust in order institutions (e.g., the police) and trust in representative
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The Gendered Dynamics of Sexting as Boundary Work YOUNG (IF 1.342) Pub Date : 2022-02-25 Kelsea Perry, Rosemary Ricciardelli, Michael Adorjan
‘Sexting’ as a form of sexual expression and experimentation has grown increasingly ubiquitous among teens. In addition to fostering intimacy and closeness among selected partners, sexting between minors incurs considerable risks to youth mental, physical, social and emotional wellbeing. Current debates on sexting focus on the conflicting role of pressure and pleasure among youth. We highlight findings
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Book review: D. Buckingham, Youth on Screen. Representing Young People in Film and Television YOUNG (IF 1.342) Pub Date : 2022-01-30 Malena Janson
D. Buckingham, Youth on Screen. Representing Young People in Film and Television. Polity Press, 2021, 192 pp., 20.40€ (Paperback). ISBN: 9781509545254.
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The Role of Religion in Young Muslims’ and Christians’ Self-presentation on Social Media YOUNG (IF 1.342) Pub Date : 2021-12-25 Irene Trysnes, Ronald Mayora Synnes
This article examines how young Muslims and Christians with ethnic minority backgrounds in Oslo reflect on their use of social media as a way to present themselves and their religiosity. The study draws upon Arlie Hochschild’s concepts of feeling rules and emotional labour and Erving Goffman’s typology of frontstage and backstage behaviour to analyse how young Muslims and Christian informants present
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Radically Ordinary Lives: Young Rural Stayers and the Ingredients of the Good Life in Finnish Lapland YOUNG (IF 1.342) Pub Date : 2021-12-19 Ria-Maria Adams, Teresa Komu
This article focuses on young people who, despite the general tendency towards youth outmigration in rural areas, have decided to stay in their home town. We explore the agency of young, conscious stayers, as well as the process of staying in the northern Finnish town of Kemijärvi. The stayers’ values and perceptions of the constituents of a good life could be taken as an alternative to the prevailing
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Book Review: V. Cuzzocrea, B. G. Bello, & Y. Kazepov (eds.) (2020). Italian Youth in International Context: Belonging, Constraints and Opportunities YOUNG (IF 1.342) Pub Date : 2021-12-11 Riccardo Vecellio Segate
V. Cuzzocrea, B. G. Bello, & Y. Kazepov (eds.) (2020). Italian Youth in International Context: Belonging, Constraints and Opportunities. Abingdon-on-Thames: Routledge. xiii + 244 pp., £120 (hardback). ISBN: 978-1-138-48857-1.
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‘Democracy and Active Citizenship Are Not Just About the Elections’: Youth Civic and Political Participation During and Beyond Singapore’s Nine-day Pandemic Election (GE2020) YOUNG (IF 1.342) Pub Date : 2021-12-03 Jin Yao Kwan
Youths have responded to the unprecedented socio-economic impact of COVID-19 pandemic through civic and political participation. However, knowledge gaps exist with documenting specific motivations and forms involved in participation, as well as the implications for subsequent engagement. Using public podcast episodes produced by the author during Singapore’s nine-day election campaign held under lockdown
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‘A Couple of These Videos Is All You Really Needed to Get Pumped to Skate’: Subcultural Media, Nostalgia and Re-Viewing 1990s Skate Media on YouTube YOUNG (IF 1.342) Pub Date : 2021-11-25 Thomas Thurnell-Read
The reappearance of VHS skateboarding movies produced during the 1990s on YouTube presents a timely opportunity to examine how the subcultural identities of former skateboarders are reassessed in later life. Drawing on subcultural studies and theories of mediated memory, this article analyses comments made by viewers of YouTube re-postings of 411 Video Magazine, an era-defining skateboard movie series
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Outsiders Looking in. The Re-enrolment Struggles of Early School Leavers in Norway YOUNG (IF 1.342) Pub Date : 2021-11-25 Marianne Takvam Kindt, Kaja Reegård
Despite a vast literature on the causes and consequences of leaving school prematurely, little scholarly and policy attention has been paid to those who re-enter education after a temporary withdrawal. Re-enrolment is often portrayed in the literature as an active act of agency requiring inner drive. Based on 18 interviews with young early school leavers and re-enrolees in Norway, we construct two
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On the Pathway to an Unforeseeable Future: An Actantial Analysis of Career Designs of Young People YOUNG (IF 1.342) Pub Date : 2021-11-17 Mira Kalalahti, Janne Varjo
The process of life design in contemporary adolescence is of increasing interest in times of lifelong learning and the knowledge society. The aim of this article was to increase the comprehension of career designs by analysing the two-phase interviews of 31 young people at the ages of 15 and 18. Drawing on actantial analysis, we modelled the plurality of the career designs, analysed who the main actors
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The Jack-Roller and the Life History Method: Notes on the Chicago School’s Clifford Shaw and Howard Becker’s Humanistic Narrative of Young Male and Female Delinquents in Different Ages YOUNG (IF 1.342) Pub Date : 2021-10-09 Shane Blackman
Clifford Shaw’s (1930) The Jack-Roller is a landmark study of naturalism, ethnography and crime. It is the ‘own story’ of Stanley—a young delinquent in Chicago. Shaw’s series of ethnographic studies on delinquency sought to humanize deviance in opposition to pathological understandings of delinquency. The article looks on the representation of crimes committed and punishment received by young male
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Young People’s Rights and Mental Health During a Pandemic: An Analysis of the Impact of Emergency Legislation in Scotland YOUNG (IF 1.342) Pub Date : 2021-09-12 Christina McMellon, A. MacLachlan
Emerging evidence indicates that the COVID-19 pandemic and government measures put in place in response to this have had a detrimental impact on young people’s mental health. A children’s human rights-based approach was taken to examine the impact of the legislative and policy measures that were implemented in Scotland in response to the pandemic on children’s rights related to their mental health
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Introduction to Special Issue. Distancing, Disease and Distress: The Young and COVID-19: Exploring Young People’s Experience of Inequalities and Their Resourcefulness During the Pandemic YOUNG (IF 1.342) Pub Date : 2021-09-12 Tea Torbenfeldt Bengtsson, Shane Blackman, Hannah King, Jeanette Østergaard
The COVID-19 global pandemic has impacted everyone’s lives—young and old. When the World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic on 11 March 2020 and one country after another went into lockdown, we as editors of YOUNG and youth researchers living in five different countries naturally started to think about and reflect on what impact the pandemic would have on young people’s everyday
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Introduction to Special Issue. Distancing, Disease and Distress: The Young and COVID-19: Exploring Young People’s Experience of Inequalities and Their Resourcefulness During the Pandemic YOUNG (IF 1.342) Pub Date : 2021-08-24 Tea Torbenfeldt Bengtsson, Shane Blackman, Hannah King, Jeanette Østergaard
The COVID-19 global pandemic has impacted everyone’s lives—young and old. When the World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic on 11 March 2020 and one country after another went into lockdown, we as editors of YOUNG and youth researchers living in five different countries naturally started to think about and reflect on what impact the pandemic would have on young people’s everyday
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Pandemic Impacts for Indigenous Children and Youth Within Canada: An Ethical Analysis YOUNG (IF 1.342) Pub Date : 2021-08-05 Carly Heck, Meghan Eaker, Satya Cobos, Sydney Campbell, Franco A. Carnevale
In response to new and exacerbated challenges imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic, Indigenous children and youth in Canada have developed innovative and holistic solutions to amplify their voices, continue cultural engagement and combat social isolation for themselves and their communities as a whole. In this analysis, we have selected three Indigenous philosophical tenets as an ethical orientation for
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Lockdown Fits and Misfits: Disabled Young People’s Lives Under COVID-19 Lockdown YOUNG (IF 1.342) Pub Date : 2021-07-29 Reetta Mietola, Karoliina Ahonen
This article analyses COVID-19 stories of disabled young people describing their everyday experiences during spring 2020. Data consist of 14 entries submitted to the Corona Competition organized by the Supporting Foundation for Children and Youth with Disabilities. We ask how disabled young people narrate their lockdown experience. Our analysis focuses on the one hand on the hegemonic lockdown narratives
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The Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Lifestyle: How Young people have Adapted Their Leisure and Routine during Lockdown in Italy YOUNG (IF 1.342) Pub Date : 2021-07-29 Paola Panarese, Vittoria Azzarita
The Covid-19 pandemic is an unprecedented global event. Physical distancing and other restrictions imposed by national and local governments all over the world to contain the spread of the virus almost certainly have had a significant impact on young people, who are more sensitive to peer interaction and social stimuli than adults. This article sets out to investigate the lifestyles of young Italians
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Playing Apart Together: Young People’s Online Gaming During the COVID-19 Lockdown YOUNG (IF 1.342) Pub Date : 2021-07-29 Tea T. Bengtsson, Louise H. Bom, Lars Fynbo
The COVID-19 pandemic caused countries around the world to initiate societal lockdowns, especially during the spring of 2020. This article focuses on online gaming’s role in young people’s lives during the lockdown in Denmark. Informed by a practice theoretical framework, the analyses of 35 interviews with young people (16–19 years) examine how gaming proved to be something to do in a situation of
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‘It’s Been a Massive Struggle’: Exploring the Experiences of Young People Leaving Care During COVID-19 YOUNG (IF 1.342) Pub Date : 2021-07-19 Louise Roberts, Dawn Mannay, Alyson Rees, Hannah Bayfield, Cindy Corliss, Clive Diaz, Rachael Vaughan
This article explores the experiences of young people leaving state care during COVID-19. Twenty-one young people, predominantly from Wales, engaged in semi-structured interviews and/or contributed poems and artwork conveying their experiences of the pandemic. The data generated offered insights into young people’s daily lives, including their routines and relationships, as well as access to resources
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Impacts of the COVID-19 Control Measures on Widening Educational Inequalities YOUNG (IF 1.342) Pub Date : 2021-07-16 Merike Darmody, Emer Smyth, Helen Russell
COVID-19 has resulted in a global public health crisis. Measures adopted by governments across the world to reduce transmission have resulted in the closure of educational institutions and workplaces and reduced social interaction. The aim of the article is to reflect on the consequences of the COVID-19 global pandemic for the lives of young people from different social groups, with a special focus
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Emerging Adulthood in the Time of Pandemic: The COVID-19 Crisis in the Lives of Rural Young Adults in Finland YOUNG (IF 1.342) Pub Date : 2021-07-12 Kaisa Vehkalahti, Päivi Armila, Ari Sivenius
This article discusses changes introduced into the everyday life and lifecourse dispositions of young adults in two sparsely populated regions in Finland during the COVID-19 lockdown period of spring 2020. By the age of 20, many of them had already spent some years living independently during their school years. Due to the pandemic, many had to move back to their rural home regions. This article shows
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To Connect and be Heard: Informal Dimension of School Mealtimes Represented by Students’ Self-initiated YouTube Videos YOUNG (IF 1.342) Pub Date : 2021-06-18 Kristiina Janhonen, Johanna Mäkelä
This qualitative observational study examines Finnish students’ self-initiated YouTube videos of school mealtimes, leaning theoretically on childhood sociology and social constructionist philosophy. Conceptualization of formal and informal dimensions of school mealtimes supported an examination of social media as a tool for children and young people for creative content production and expressions of
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Youth, Precarious Work and the Pandemic YOUNG (IF 1.342) Pub Date : 2021-06-03 Julia Cook, Steven Threadgold, David Farrugia, Julia Coffey
While Australia has experienced low COVID-19 case numbers relative to other countries, it has witnessed severe economic consequences in the wake of the pandemic. The hospitality industry, in which young adults are overrepresented, has been among the most affected industries. In this article, we present findings from an interview and a digital methods-based study of young hospitality workers in the
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In Search of Waves: A Life Course Analysis of the Mobile Lifestyle of Finnish Surfer-travellers YOUNG (IF 1.342) Pub Date : 2021-05-17 Mikko Piispa
Surfing is often a mobile lifestyle, centred around the search for waves. This article analyses Finnish surfer-travellers through a life course perspective. The data consists of 20 thematic life story interviews, conducted in 2016–2017. Surfer-travellers are representative of highly mobile cosmopolitan youth. This analysis focuses on how they have engaged with surf-travelling, what networks and capital
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Biosociality in Online Interactions: Youths’ Positioning of the Highly Sensitive Person Category YOUNG (IF 1.342) Pub Date : 2021-05-12 Fanny Edenroth-Cato, Björn Sjöblom
This article examines how young people in a Swedish online forum and in blogs engage in discussions of one popularized psychological personality trait, the highly sensitive person (HSP), and how they draw on different positionings in discursive struggles around this category. The material is analysed with concepts from discursive psychology and post-structuralist theory in order to investigate youths’