Books in the Youth, Young Adulthood and Society series

This volume tackles these questions by exploring adults' ideas about youth. Specifically, Youth, Technology, Governance, Experience examines the four titular concepts and their implications for a range of relationships between youth and adults.

This volume seeks to address what its contributors take to be an important lacuna in youth cultural research: a lack of interest in the phenomenon of collectivity and collective aspects of youth culture.

Structure and Agency in Young People's Lives brings together different takes on the possible combinations of agency and structure in the life course, thus rejecting the notion that young individuals are the single masters of their lives, but also the view that their social destinies are completely out of their hands.

Italy is not a country for young people. Why? This book provides a unique and in-depth collection of empirical and theoretical material providing multiple answers to this question whilst investigating the living conditions of young people in Italy today.

The Subcultural Imagination examines young adults in subcultures, and how sociologists use qualitative research methods to study them. It applies the ideas of C. Wright Mills to the development of theory-reflexive ethnography. Looking at the experiences of young people in different subcultural settings, this book shows how young people in subcultures interact in the wider context of society, biography and history.

The collection brings together texts of Brazilian researchers who are dedicated to themes related to studies of youth cultures: sociabilities, subcultures, identities and belonging, pop culture, social movements, migration, consumption and materialities, generational exchanges, media representations and digital media, among others.

Focusing on the struggles of youth in the Arabian Gulf to find their place in their encounters with modernity, Everyday Youth Cultures in the Gulf Peninsula explores how global forces are reshaping everyday cultural experiences in authoritarian societies.

Digital and social media are ubiquitous in the lives of young people, to the point where they are an accepted part of the social and cultural landscape. But how do youth make meaning of their technologically mediated lives? This book proposes answers from an interdisciplinary view of youth and the digital age.