Dan Woodman is T.R. Ashworth Professor in Sociology at University of Melbourne. He researches youth, young adulthood and generational change using longitudinal method. Dan is co-Editor in Chief of Journal of Youth Studies and the President of the Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences in Australia. He has been teaching first year sociology students at the University of Melbourne for a more than a decade.  Professor Johanna Wyn is Director of the Youth Research Centre, University of Melbourne.

Woodman and Wyn have produced a text that offers conceptual clarity and real depth on debates in youth studies.  The authors skilfully guide us through the main sociological theories on young people and furnish us with sophisticated critiques from which to rethink youth and generation in the contemporary moment.

• Chapter 1: Continuity and ChangeIndividualisationGenerationNew Life PatternsStructure of the BookChapter 2: Global Change and InequalityEducation, Urbanisation and EmploymentInequalityAustralia in a Changing WorldThe Failure of the Neoliberal PromiseTheory in Youth StudiesChapter 3: IndividualisationUnderstanding Changing PatternsBringing Zombie Categories Back to LifeThe Creation of the Choice BiographyHolding Lives TogetherResearching the Making of Inequality in New TimesChapter 4: GenerationsThe Emergence and Marginalisation of the Sociology of GenerationsWhat is a Generation?Intergenerational RelationshipsWhen does a Generation Emerge?Chapter 5: TransitionsYouth Transitions and DevelopmentTransition Regimes and the Making of a GenerationsResearch and ReflexivityChapter 6: CulturesConcepts of SubculturePost-subculturesContinuity and Change in Cultures ResearchGenerational Change, Cultures and DivisionsBlurring BoundariesChapter 7: TimeSocial Change and SynchronisationSociality and the Digital RevolutionTime, Youth Cultures and InequalityThe Present, Past and FutureChapter 8: PlaceThe Invisibility of PlaceTheorising Young People and PlaceMobilities, Cultures and PlaceMaking Place VisiblePlace and Global GenerationsYoung People Making a Place for ThemselvesChapter 9: ConclusionGenerations, Transitions, CulturesTime, Place and the Future

Dan Woodman is T.R. Ashworth Professor in Sociology at University of Melbourne. He researches youth, young adulthood and generational change using longitudinal method. Dan is co-Editor in Chief of Journal of Youth Studies and the President of the Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences in Australia. He has been teaching first year sociology students at the University of Melbourne for a more than a decade.  Professor Johanna Wyn is Director of the Youth Research Centre, University of Melbourne.

Woodman and Wyn have produced a text that offers conceptual clarity and real depth on debates in youth studies.  The authors skilfully guide us through the main sociological theories on young people and furnish us with sophisticated critiques from which to rethink youth and generation in the contemporary moment.

• Chapter 1: Continuity and ChangeIndividualisationGenerationNew Life PatternsStructure of the BookChapter 2: Global Change and InequalityEducation, Urbanisation and EmploymentInequalityAustralia in a Changing WorldThe Failure of the Neoliberal PromiseTheory in Youth StudiesChapter 3: IndividualisationUnderstanding Changing PatternsBringing Zombie Categories Back to LifeThe Creation of the Choice BiographyHolding Lives TogetherResearching the Making of Inequality in New TimesChapter 4: GenerationsThe Emergence and Marginalisation of the Sociology of GenerationsWhat is a Generation?Intergenerational RelationshipsWhen does a Generation Emerge?Chapter 5: TransitionsYouth Transitions and DevelopmentTransition Regimes and the Making of a GenerationsResearch and ReflexivityChapter 6: CulturesConcepts of SubculturePost-subculturesContinuity and Change in Cultures ResearchGenerational Change, Cultures and DivisionsBlurring BoundariesChapter 7: TimeSocial Change and SynchronisationSociality and the Digital RevolutionTime, Youth Cultures and InequalityThe Present, Past and FutureChapter 8: PlaceThe Invisibility of PlaceTheorising Young People and PlaceMobilities, Cultures and PlaceMaking Place VisiblePlace and Global GenerationsYoung People Making a Place for ThemselvesChapter 9: ConclusionGenerations, Transitions, CulturesTime, Place and the Future