Researching Youth

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Introduction: Contemporary Youth Research: Issues, Controversies and Dilemmas

   1. Introduction: Contemporary Youth Research: Issues, Controversies and Dilemmas

      • Mark Cieslik

      Pages 1-10

3. Youth Research in Context

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11

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   2. Problems and Priorities for the Sociology of Youth

      • Ken Roberts

      Pages 13-28

   3. Mods and Shockers: Youth Cultural Studies in Britain

      • John Hood-Williams, Phil Cohen

      Pages 29-51

4. Principles of Practice

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 53-53

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   2. Framing Youth: Reviewing Locally Commissioned Research on Young People, Drug Use and Drug Education

      • Mathew Jones, Fenella Starkey, Judy Orme

      Pages 55-65

   3. Practice-based Research as Development: Innovation and Empowerment in Youth Intervention Initiatives using Collaborative Action Inquiry

      • Barry Percy-Smith, Susan Weil

      Pages 66-84

   4. Onions and Apples: Problems with Comparative European Youth Research

      • Fred Cartmel

      Pages 85-100

5. Reflections on Fieldwork

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 101-101

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   2. Ethnography in Practice: A Case Study Illustration

      • Ruth Emond

      Pages 103-119

   3. Researching Young Women’s Bodies: Values, Dilemmas and Contradictions

      • Liz Frost

      Pages 120-137

   4. E-heads Versus Beer Monsters: Researching Young People’s Music and Drug Consumption in Dance Club Settings

      • Karenza Moore

      Pages 138-153

6. Issues in Ethnography

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 155-155

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   2. Double Exposure: Exploring the Social and Political Relations of Ethnographic Youth Research

      • Robert Hollands

      Pages 157-169

   3. Researching Young People as Consumers: Can and Should We Ask Them Why?

      • Steven Miles

      Pages 170-185

   4. The Use of ‘Insider’ Knowledge in Ethnographic Research on Contemporary Youth Music Scenes

      • Andy Bennett

      Pages 186-199

7. Back Matter

   Pages 201-225

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Written in a clear and accessible style, this book presents a broad ranging enquiry into various methodological issues associated with contemporary youth research. Chapters cover a variety of topical areas, including youth transitions, youth in care, drugs, consumption and music. Featuring studies by new and established youth researchers, this book will be an invaluable resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students, and also those carrying out more advanced research, in the fields of sociology, social policy, health studies, cultural and media studies.

• Europe
• social policy
• sociology
• youth
• childhood studies

• Department of Sociology, University of Surrey, UK

  Andy Bennett

• School of Social Sciences and Law, University of Teesside, UK

  Mark Cieslik

• Centre for Cultural Policy and Management, University of Northumbria, UK

  Steven Miles

FRED CARTMEL is Senior Research Associate in the Youth, Education and Employment Research Unit based at Glasgow University, UK PHIL COHEN is Professor of Cultural and Innovation Studies at the University of East London, UK RUTH EDMOND works part time in the Department of Applied Social Science, University of Stirling, UK LIZ FROST is a Senior Lecturer in Applied Social Sciences at the University of The West of England, UK ROBERT HOLLANDS is currently a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK MATHEW JONES is Senior Lecturer in Health and Social Policy at the University of the West of England, UK KARENZA MOORE is a Research Associate at the Centre for Research on Innovation and Competition, University of Manchester, UK JUDY ORME is Principal Lecturer in Public Health at the University of the West of England, UK BARRY PERCY-SMITH is Senior Research Fellow at SOLAR (Social and Organisational Learning as Action Research) at the University of the West of England, UK KEN ROBERTS is Professor of Sociology at the University of Liverpool, UK FENELLA STARKEY is a Research Associate in the Department of Social Medicine at the University of Bristol, UK SUSAN WEIL is Professor of Social and Organisational Learning and Director of the SOLAR (Social and Organisational Learning as Action Research) Centre, University of the West of England, UK

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