Barbara Stauber - Böcker

This title was first published in 2002.Communities of Youth critically evaluates what it means to be a young person at the beginning of the twenty-first century and the problems, opportunities and dilemmas that emerge from the experience. The book is concerned with putting key conceptual debates to do with youth in a comparative cutting-edge empirical context. In particular, it endeavours to transcend what its contributors feel is one of the most damaging trends of recent work on the question of youth, namely: the division between young people’s transitions and youth culture. Building upon the notion of lifestyle as a means of bridging this gap, the book provides something original and timely: a way of linking young people’s broader structural concerns with the cultural and community contexts within which they conduct their everyday lives. The data discussed in the book emanates from a comparative European Union project conducted in Great Britain, Germany and Portugal. The three training programmes examined are based on the performing arts, but the authors argue that the skills young people glean from these courses are more to do with generic skills such as the ability to work effectively in groups, mutual responsibility, discipline and above all, confidence, than the technical proficiencies of performance. These courses become an important part of the young people’s lives and as such, provide a space within which they become themselves. In this sense, the book highlights the fact that far from being passive recipients of public policy, young people actively engage with the power structures that combine to shape their lives. Communities of Youth therefore considers the diversity of European youth and by tapping into this diversity it develops important recommendations that will inform academic debate, research and youth policy.

This title was first published in 2002.Communities of Youth critically evaluates what it means to be a young person at the beginning of the twenty-first century and the problems, opportunities and dilemmas that emerge from the experience. The book is concerned with putting key conceptual debates to do with youth in a comparative cutting-edge empirical context. In particular, it endeavours to transcend what its contributors feel is one of the most damaging trends of recent work on the question of youth, namely: the division between young people’s transitions and youth culture. Building upon the notion of lifestyle as a means of bridging this gap, the book provides something original and timely: a way of linking young people’s broader structural concerns with the cultural and community contexts within which they conduct their everyday lives. The data discussed in the book emanates from a comparative European Union project conducted in Great Britain, Germany and Portugal. The three training programmes examined are based on the performing arts, but the authors argue that the skills young people glean from these courses are more to do with generic skills such as the ability to work effectively in groups, mutual responsibility, discipline and above all, confidence, than the technical proficiencies of performance. These courses become an important part of the young people’s lives and as such, provide a space within which they become themselves. In this sense, the book highlights the fact that far from being passive recipients of public policy, young people actively engage with the power structures that combine to shape their lives. Communities of Youth therefore considers the diversity of European youth and by tapping into this diversity it develops important recommendations that will inform academic debate, research and youth policy.

This open access book provides a unique research perspective on life course transitions. It presents fresh empirical research on “doing transitions” in different life phases (e.g., childhood, young adulthood, later life) and life domains (e.g., education, work, family, health, migration).

This open access book provides a unique research perspective on life course transitions. It presents fresh empirical research on “doing transitions” in different life phases (e.g., childhood, young adulthood, later life) and life domains (e.g., education, work, family, health, migration).

Wo entsprechen die Praktiken und Handlungslogiken von jungen Erwachsenen den gesellschaftlichen Tendenzen von Vermarktlichung und Beschleunigung?

Der Alkoholkonsum Jugendlicher ist seit Jahren allgegenwärtiges Thema in Medien und Fachöffentlichkeit. Zuschreibungen und Dramatisierung bestimmen bisher überwiegend den Diskurs. Kaum werden jedoch die subjektiven und kollektiven Sinnstrukturen dieser riskanten jugendkulturellen Praxis und ihrer biografischen Bedeutung genauer untersucht. Diese Publikation stellt Ergebnisse einer qualitativen Längschnittstudie vor, mit umfassendem Hintergrundwissen zum Phänomen des Umgangs mit Alkohol im Jugendalter. Sie soll bewusst zu einer reflexiven Entdramatisierung der Debatte beitragen.

Angesichts des Beschleunigungsdrucks, unter den die Erfüllung von Vermittlungserwartungen gerät, aber auch vor dem Hintergrund einer wachsenden Aufmerksamkeit für den Eigensinn von Beteiligung der Adressaten, wird gefragt, in welcher Weise sich die Ansprüche an Vermittlung verändert haben.

In dem Band werden neue Anforderungen in unterschiedlichen Handlungsfeldern beschrieben und diskutiert, die sich ganz grundsätzlich und zwangsläufig im Umgang mit Geflüchteten ergeben: Menschen mit traumatisierenden Erfahrungen benötigen konkrete Hilfen, minderjährige Geflüchtete müssen in Angeboten der Kinder- und Jugendhilfe aufgenommen werden, Rassismen, Stigmatisierungen und Diskriminierungen muss gerade von professioneller Seite reflektiert begegnet werden. Neben theoretischen Einordnungen zum Flüchtlingsdiskurs liefern die Beiträge Antworten auf aktuelle Fragen und entwickeln praxisrelevante Zugänge zum Thema.

Der Band hat zum Ziel verschiedene Dimensionen von Care ins Verhältnis zur Sozialen Arbeit zu setzen und diese wechselseitigen Verknüpfungen kritisch zu beleuchten. Die Relevanz einer solchen Verhältnisbestimmung ergibt sich aus der Beobachtung, dass Care im Kontext der Sozialen Arbeit bislang kaum explizit behandelt wird.