YouthISBN: 978-0-7456-4095-2
Paperback
176 pages
February 2009, Polity
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Acta Sociologica
"Youth usefully embeds the category of youth within wider
debates in the social sciences, indicating how they have either
addressed the question of youth, or could be extrapolated to have
something to add to theoretical approaches to youth."
British Journal of Sociology of Education
"The particular value of Jones' approach is that it moves easily
between social, cultural and psychoanalytical theorists to reveal
what nuggets of value they hold in relation to young
people."
Shane Blackman, Canterbury Christ Church University for
Sociology
"It's all here, including the kitchen sink. Everything you ever
wanted to know about youth and a few other things you hadn't
thought of can be found between the pages of this book."
Mary Jane Kehily, The Open University for
Sociology
"A very handy little book for anyone who wants a simple but
comprehensive introduction to the social scientific study of
youth."
Tracy Shildrick, University of Teeside for
Sociology
"An excellent textbook that will be used at many levels of study
(and, I imagine, teaching!)."
Howard Williamson, University of Glamorgan for
Sociology
“In the latest of what has been a series of path-breaking
discussions of the subject, Gill Jones cuts through the complexity
of ‘youth’ to give an easily accessible account of the
evolving theories in the field and the evidence that can be
marshalled in support of each of them. The breadth of her
scholarship draws upon the wider framework of globalisation, and
the social, demographic and cultural upheavals in the context of
young people’s lives.”
John Bynner, University of London
James Côté, University of Western Ontario
"After over twenty years of empirical research and thoughtful
analysis on the subject of this book Professor Jones has distilled
her considerable experience into an authoritative text that will
help countless students to write their essays and, I suspect, many
of their teachers to prepare their lectures. Gill Jones has
established herself as the doyenne of the sociology of
youth."
Ray Pahl, University of Essex