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Youth and Policy : Contexts and Consequences
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Youth and Policy : Contexts and Consequences.
ISBN
0429401280
0429685319
9780429401282
9780429685316
1138394319
9781138394315
Published
Milton : Routledge, 2019.
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1 online resource (262 pages)
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Summary
First published in 1997, this volume is concerned primarily, though not exclusively, with one particular vulnerable group: unqualified young men on the margins. These young men, whose cultures of machismo, manualism and anti-mentalism previously served to prepare them for the manual labour market, are increasingly the careerless, the jobless and the folk-devils of the modern, post-industrial society. In research, they have received considerable attention, though more for their capacity to be spectacular, deviant and bizarre than through the deep anxieties and despondency about the future experienced by many. Howard Williamson contends that the development of effective youth policy depends essentially upon a synthesis of political priorities, professional agendas and young people's perspectives and responses. While not quite an 'underclass', many suffer from a 'tangle of pathologies' which obstructs the possibility of them finding a way back into mainstream economic, housing and relationship transitions.
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Taylor & Francis. EBA 2024-2025.
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Print version: Williamson, Howard. Youth and Policy : Contexts and Consequences. Milton : Routledge, ©2019
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 07, 2024
Series
Routledge Revivals Ser.
Contents
Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Profile of the author; Preface; 1. Making sense ... a failure to understand and a duty to explain: youth, youth policy and youth research 1975-1995; JUST WICKED: Rational delinquents; 2. Golden years; 3. Choosing to be a delinquent; 4. Why kids plead guilty; 5. Trapped as teenagers; Exploitation or opportunity? Youth training programmes; 6. Chance would be a fine thing; 7. Client responses to the youth opportunities programme; 8. Status zerO youth: politics, predicaments and policies
9. Policy responses to youth unemployment: Cultures, careers and consequencesPerson-centred or politically-determined: The youth service; 10. The changing context of youth work in the 1990s; 11. At the crossroads: Youth work in Wales; 12. The needs of young people aged 15-19 and the youth service response; On the edge: Diminished prospects and growing marginalisation; 13. Struggling beyond youth; 14. Youth policy in the United Kingdom and the marginalisation of young people; 15. Culture, politics and social exclusion: a comparison of 'status zerO' young people in two localities
Reflections from the field16. Some lessons from over a decade of contract research; Bibliography
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