Overview
- Draws on a high profile, large scale European research project which covered over 14 countries
- Offers a unique methodological approach
- Challenges the methodological assumption that survey research shows the big picture but at the cost of local nuance
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Context-Sensitive Survey Research
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Beyond Comparison? Transnational Qualitative Research
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Triangulation in Practice
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About this book
This edited volume presents findings from a major cross-European research project mapping the civic and political engagement of young Europeans in the context of both shared and diverse political heritages. Drawing on new survey, interview and ethnographic data, the authors discuss substantive issues relating to young people’s attitudes and activism including: attitudes to the European Union and to history; understanding of political ideologies; how attitudes to democracy are shaped by political heritage; activism in radical right wing groups and religion-based organisations; and digital activism.
These contributions make the book’s case that transnational and multi-method projects can enrich our understanding of how young people envisage their place and role in Europe’s political and civic space. The book challenges methodological assumptions that survey research shows the big picture but at the cost of local nuance or that qualitative research cannot speak beyond the individual case, and demonstrates the added explanatory value of triangulating different kinds of data.
Understanding Youth Participation Across Europe will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines, including Sociology, Political Sociology, Youth Studies and Political and Civic Participation.
Reviews
“This ambitious volume charts new ground in comparative research and should be required reading in social science methods courses.” (Cynthia Miller-Idriss, American University, USA)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Hilary Pilkington is Professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester, UK.
Gary Pollock is Professor and Head of Sociology at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.
Renata Franc is Senior Research Fellow and Professor at Institute Ivo Pilar, Croatia.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Understanding Youth Participation Across Europe
Book Subtitle: From Survey to Ethnography
Editors: Hilary Pilkington, Gary Pollock, Renata Franc
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59007-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-59006-0Published: 18 October 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-59007-7Published: 07 October 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXVI, 340
Number of Illustrations: 17 b/w illustrations
Topics: Ethnography, Sociology of Citizenship, Democracy