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We are currently seeking submissions for Sociological Studies of Children and Youth, Volume 22, Researching Kids and Teens: Methodological Issues, Strategies, and Innovations.  Problems and pitfalls often accompany researching children and youth, given sociologists’ increasingly limited access to populations deemed vulnerable.  In addition, navigation through Institutional Review Board requirements and gaining trust from key organizational…

M.J. Shanahan, J. T. Mortimer and M. Kirkpatrick Johnson (Eds) ISBN 978-3-319-20879-4 (hardcover) – 978-3-319-20880-0 (ebook) Springer International Publishing, Switzerland – 2016   Building on the success of the 2003 Handbook of the Life Course, this second volume identifies future directions for life course research and policy. The introductory essay and the chapters that make…

Jessica Crofts, Hernán Cuervo, Johanna Wyn, Graeme Smith & Dan Woodman ISBN 9780734051844 – 9780734051851 Youth Research Centre, The University of Melbourne – 2015 The Life Patterns research program is designed to follow patterns in young people’s lives over time in order to gain a longitudinal and holistic understanding of the ways in which two…

  Mariana Chaves, Ramiro Segura (Eds) ISBN 978-987-691-367-6 Biblos, Buenos Aires – 2015     Hacerse un lugar. Circuitos y trayectorias juveniles en ámbitos urbanos (Making a place for your own. Youth circuits and paths in urban settings) is a collective investigation about urban youth practices. The book aims to analyze urban practices, circuits and…

A Simplified Approach     James E. Cote, Charles Levine ISBN : 9781848726741 (Paperback) – 9781848726734 (Hardback) Psychology Press – 2016   The concept of identity is one of the most important ideas the social sciences have investigated in recent years, yet no introductory textbooks are available to those who want to gain a sense of…

. . Education and Youth Today Sociological Studies of Children & Youth: Volume 21   Guest Editor: Yasemin Besen-Cassino, Associate Professor Department of Sociology Montclair State University Sociological Studies of Children and Youth (SSCY) invites papers to be considered for a guest-edited edited volume that will explore the role of schools and education in young…

. . M. Heathfield, D. Fusco (Eds) ISBN: 978-1-13-880829-4 Routledge – 2016   The transition to adulthood for many is mediated by class, culture, and local/global influences on identity. This volume analyzes the global injustices that create inequities and restrict future opportunities for young people during this transitional time, including poverty, unemployment, human rights, race,…

A.-A. Allaste & K. Tiidenberg ISBN: 978-1-4438-7174-7 Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne – 2015 – This collection of fifteen methodological texts by a group of thirty international youth and social researchers is a polyphony of scholarly voices advancing the field of qualitative inquiry in youth studies. The book homes in on ways of adapting,…

    Youth and Generation. Rethinking change and inequality in the lives of young people Dan Woodman, Joanna WynISBN: 9781446259054 Sage, London 2014   The promise of youth studies is not in simply showing that class, gender and race continue to influence life chances, but to show how they shape young lives today. Dan Woodman…

P.-E. Mitev & S. Kovacheva ISBN 978-954-2979-23-4 Friedrich Ebert Foundation, Sofia – 2014   This book is a sociological portrait of young people in present-day Bulgaria – twenty-five years after the beginning of the Change and seven years after the country’s accession to the European Union. The path passed since 1989 is the result of…