Journal of Youth Studies
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Journal of Youth Studies is an international scholarly journal devoted to the theoretical and empirical understanding of young people’s experiences and life contexts. https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/cjys20
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BIG NEWS! The 5th Journal of Youth studies Conference will take place in Porto, May 4 to 6, 2027! Check the link for all relevant details including submissions, registration and keynotes. jys-conference.eventqualia.net/en/2027/home/
The 5th Journal of Youth Studies International Conference
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Tomorrow (Tues March 17, 2pm) we have Sam Friedman (LSE) presenting on his award winning work on the British elite. The seminar is online and in person at NuSpace (X204).
Born to Rule
The Making and Remaking of the British Elite
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Please join us online on Wednesday March 11 (tomorrow!) at 3pm for @samfriedman.bsky.social (LSE) and Rose Butler (Deakin) for our next online seminar "Class Diplomacy: Cross-Class Friendship and Social Mobility'
Class Diplomacy: Cross-Class Friendship and Social Mobility
Negotiating class based tensions and the politics of friendship
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On Wednesday at 2pm we have our NYSC visitor Sam Kirwan from University of Bristol presenting on The Debt Cycle. This will be online and for those in Newcastle please join us in person at X401 in NuSpace.
The Debt Cycle
Presents work from Sam Kirwan's forthcoming book
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Tom Leppard and Anna Manzoni's article was on the top 10 highest-scoring Routledge journal articles on Altmetric Explorer as recorded on Altimetric.com in the past week. It was mentioned by 17 news outlets, 1 X user, and one blogger!
Bonding ties that get ahead?: family social capital and early occupational attainment
Parents shape their children’s outcomes through multiple avenues. Parental human and financial capital are well known to influence children’s occupational attainment by enabling investments in educ...
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SAVE THE DATE! Journal of Youth Studies Conference, University of Porto in May 4-6, 2027.
I'm giving talk at RMIT for the Music Industry Research Collective on Monday October 20 at 3pm on 'What is cultural sociology when culture is platformed and financialised?'
The book also has an open to anyone support site, with support materials, videos and discussion questions. If you would like multiple choice questions to set quizzes for each chapter, please email me. 2/2
Subculture in the 21st Century
A book for teaching and learning about subculture as a sociological concept
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It's finally out! After what could only be described as a very long gestation, our edited collection is now available. It will be great for teaching about the concept of subculture and also contains interesting contemporary examples and research case studies. 1/2
Subculture in the 21st Century: An Introduction to Subculture Studies
Subculture in the 21st Century is a key text for all students of sociology and cultural studies. Drawing on case studies and supported by a range of resources on its dedicated companion website, it is...
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Please join us for the second in our NYSC Series Online seminar on Wednesday to hear all about New Possibilities: Young People and Democratic Renewal, featuring Philippa Collin, Judith Bessant, Luigi Di Martino, Rob Watts and Varsha Yajman.
New Possibilities: Young People and Democratic Renewal
This panel shares some of the findings of the New Possibilities project
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NEW ARTICLE ALERT! Navigating transnational familyhood: how Chinese parachuters in the US (re)construct relationships with their parents: Sarah Köksal & Fengshu Liu www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Navigating transnational familyhood: how Chinese parachuters in the US (re)construct relationships with their parents
With parents remaining in China and their children in the United States, thousands of miles away, the transnational arrangement of ‘parachuting’ entails Chinese adolescents attending high school ab...
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NEW ISSUE ALERT! Journal of Youth Studies, Volume 28, Issue 5 (2025) www.tandfonline.com/toc/cjys20/2...
Journal of Youth Studies
Volume 28, Issue 5 of Journal of Youth Studies
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As part of ASA, we are promoting our sociology portfolio via the Article Collection Sociology at Times of Crisis. Journal of Youth Studies is part of this collection: think.taylorandfrancis.com/sociology-at... All articles will be Free to view until the end of January.
Sociology at Times of Crises: Article Collection 2025
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Editor in Chief @drdanwoodman.bsky.social will be taking part in the Routledge workshop at the American Sociological Association Conference on 'How Publishing Supports the Sociological Community: Insights from Sociologists and Routledge Editors' on Saturday, August 9, 10.00-11.30am.
NEW ARTICLE ALERT! From live-streaming to memes: an exploratory study of the Chinese abstract culture as a structure of feeling among Chinese youth: Suheng Zhu, Zhaoyu Zhu & Thomas William Whyke www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
From live-streaming to memes: an exploratory study of the Chinese abstract culture as a structure of feeling among Chinese youth
The abstract culture is a youth subculture characterized by the incomprehensible, vulgar, and even abusive presentations of live streamers in China. Through online viewers’ second creation, remixin...
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NEW ARTICLE ALERT! Youth temporalities in identity boxes: own objects as embodiments of past and future transitions: Micol Pizzolati & Alberta Giorgi www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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NEW ARTICLE ALERT! The journey towards staying: a qualitative study on return-home youths’ empowerment in China: Minmin Luo www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
The journey towards staying: a qualitative study on return-home youths’ empowerment in China
While existing studies have focused on the role of return-home youths and macro-level factors (such as policies and local support) in urban-rural migration, this study uses participatory action res...
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NEW ARTICLE ALERT! Alice Campbell & Fuchsia Mallinson: Supportive geographic communities protect the mental health of LGBTQ+ youth: evidence from linked Australian data www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Tomorrow at 3pm AEST we have our first NYSC online seminar taking place on zoom. The topic is Automating Everyday Life and we are joined by Nicholas Carah and Lauren Hayden, Joel Stern, and Thao Phan and Fabian Offert. You can register at Eventbrite for it here www.eventbrite.com.au/e/automating...
Automating Everyday Life
As everyday life has been digitalised, more and more of the things we do, like and consume are being automated.
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NEW ARTICLE ALERT! NEETs in China: unpacking associated factors from a gender and cumulative perspective: Ling Jiang, Xin Lin, Yuan Hao, Junyan Li & Zhirong Dong www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
NEETs in China: unpacking associated factors from a gender and cumulative perspective
The NEET (Not in Employment, Education, or Training) concept has been studied globally but has received limited attention in China. This limited attention may be attributed to an unstable labour ma...
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NEW ARTICLE ALERT! Imagining a future family: students with care experience Katie Ellis www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Imagining a future family: students with care experience
Although a significant number of care experienced parents have their own children taken into care, most go on to parent without intervention from services, suggesting a complex relationship between...
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NEW ARTICLE ALERT! Gender differences in political interest and participation among politically active youth: Silvia Behrens www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Gender differences in political interest and participation among politically active youth
This article examines how gendered perceptions of interest affect young people's engagement in political participation, including ‘Do-It-Ourselves Politics’. Interest in politics has long been esta...
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NEW ARTICLE ALERT! Technology-facilitated sexual violence perpetration as a tool for gender policing in secondary schools Salsabel Almanssori, Laxana Paskaran & Kaitlynn Mendes www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Technology-facilitated sexual violence perpetration as a tool for gender policing in secondary schools
This research examines student, teacher and administrator experiences of tech-facilitated sexual violence (TFSV) in secondary schools in Ontario, Canada. TFSV includes a range of acts where digital...
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NEW ARTICLE ALERT! The obligations and opportunities of ‘friendship as method’ in youth mentoring research: investigating the intersections with youth work epistemologies: Ben Arnold Lohmeyer, Kate Seymour, Tim Corney, Mike Seal, Tiffany Downing & Danika Baker www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The obligations and opportunities of ‘friendship as method’ in youth mentoring research: investigating the intersections with youth work epistemologies
Utilising pre-existing friendships between participants to create an environment of safety and trust when researching with young people aligns well with ethics of care and reciprocity underpinning ...
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NEW ARTICLE ALERT! Conditions of youth transition: individual and municipal factors related to the NEET rate in Finland: Essi Ahlroth, Markus Laaninen & Mikko Niemelä www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Conditions of youth transition: individual and municipal factors related to the NEET rate in Finland
The increasing number of youths who are not employed or studying – that is, youth not in education, employment, or training (NEET) – has been one of the most pressing issues for welfare societies i...
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NEW ARTICLE ALERT! The rise of the South Korean alt-right: the ‘silent counter-revolution’ of young men Gi-Woo Roh & Hee-Joon Kim www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
The rise of the South Korean alt-right: the ‘silent counter-revolution’ of young men
This study theorizes the global rise of the alt-right through the concepts of the simultaneity of non-simultaneity and the Silent Counter-Revolution, using South Korea's ‘Idaenam’ phenomenon as a c...
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NEW ARTICLE ALERT! The role of social capital in precarious youth employment transitions. Evidence from Spain: Alejandro González-Heras, Joan Rodríguez-Soler &Joan M. Verd www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
The role of social capital in precarious youth employment transitions. Evidence from Spain
Young people in southern European countries experience particularly difficult transitions between training and employment. In these countries, leaving aside training and work experience, the suppor...
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NEW ARTICLE ALERT! Young people’s negotiated solidarity in the context of drug-related crime and violence in Salvador, Brazil: Annika Lehtonen www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Young people’s negotiated solidarity in the context of drug-related crime and violence in Salvador, Brazil
Although Brazil as a whole is a diverse society, with its youth living in a variety of situations, its disadvantaged urban communities have become sites of organised crime, drug trafficking and pol...
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