Overview
- Offers a rare insight into the lives of Saudi young people
- Provides an account of the ways in which family life, education, religion, employment and housing regimes inter-lock
- Makes comparisons with Western youth and related Western literature
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book uses the youth life stage as a window through which to view all domains of life in present-day Saudi Arabia: family life, education, the impact of new media, the labour market, religion and politics. The authors draw extensively on their interviews with 25-35 year olds, selected so as to represent the life chances of males and females who grow up in different socio-economic strata, and typically face different futures. The book presents an account of the ways in which family life, education, religion, employment and the housing regimes interlock, and how and why this interlocking is subject to increasing stresses. The chapters, which are built on documentary research, official published statistics and the authors’ original evidence, provide invaluable insights into Saudi youth, which has never before been examined in such depth.
Youth in Saudi Arabia will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines including Sociology, Politics and Middle East Studies.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Talha Fadak is Associate Professor of Sociology at Umm Al-Qura University, Mecca, Saudi Arabia.
Ken Roberts is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Liverpool, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Youth in Saudi Arabia
Authors: Talha H Fadaak, Ken Roberts
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04381-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-04380-3Published: 10 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-04381-0Published: 29 December 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 203
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging, Middle Eastern Culture, Middle Eastern Politics, Social Structure, Social Inequality