Young People in Transition

CHRISTOPHER POLE is Reader in Sociology at the University of Leicester, UK where he teaches and researches in the areas of Sociology of Education, Childhood and Qualitative Methods. His most recent book is Ethnography for Education (with Marlene Morrison) published in 2003. JANE PILCHER is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Leicester, UK. Her most recent book is Fifty Key Concepts in Gender Studies (with I Whelehen) published in 2004. JOHN WILLIAMS is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Leicester, UK

• Young People in Transition. Becoming Citizens? An Introduction; C.Pole, J.Pilcher and J.Williams Complex Transitions: Linearity and Labour Market Integration in the West of Scotland; A.Furlong, F.Carmel, A.Biggart, H.Sweeting and P.West Learning for Life? The Post-war Experience of Apprenticeship; S.Vickerstaff Girls' Transition to Work and adulthood in the 1960s; H.O'Connor and J.Goodwin Fashioning Flexibility: Dissolving Boundaries between Employment, Education, and the Family among A-Level Students Engaged in Full-time Schooling and Part-time Jobs; P.Allatt and C.Dixon Leaving The Home in Comparative Perspective: Negotiating Processes and Meanings; D.H.J.Morgan, J.Patiniotis and C.Holdsworth Youth Unemployment and Social Exclusion; K.Roberts Citizenship Education. The French and English Experience; D.Kiwan and N.Kiwan Young People as 'Active Citizens'. Towards an Inclusionary View of Citizenship and Constructive Social Participation; N.Smith, R.Lister and S.Middleton Engaged Cynics? Young People's Involvement in Politics and Decision- Making in the UK; E.Fahmy Index