Facing uncertainty : temporality and biographies in the new century / Carmen Leccardi -- Coping with yo-yo-transitions : young adults' struggle for support, between family and state in comparative perspective / Andy Biggart and Andreas Walther -- Individualization and the changing youth life / Sven Mørch and Helle Andersen -- The sky is always falling : (un)changing views on youth in the US / Gunilla Holm, Toby Daspit and Allison J. Kelaher Young -- Social changes and multicultural values of young people / Helena Helve -- Solidarity in New Zealand : parental support for children in a three-generational context / Sarah Hillcoat-Nallétamby and Arunachalam Dharmalingam -- Living with parents : a research study on Italian young people and their mothers / Monica Santoro -- Work and care in the life-course of young adults in the Netherlands / Manuela du Bois-Reymond and Yolanda te Poel -- Daughters of the women's movement : generation conflicts and social change / Ute Gerhard -- Young people and family life in Eastern Europe / Ken Roberts -- Transition to adulthood in Georgia : dynamics of generational and gender roles in post-totalitarian society / Nana Sumbadze and George Tarkhan-Mouravi -- Going against the tide : young lone mothers in Italy / Elisabetta Ruspini -- The transitions to adulthood of young people with multiple disadvantages / Jane Parry -- Growing up transgender : stories of an excluded population / Surya Monro
Summary
A New Youth? offers critical reflections in the realm of sociology of youth by providing broader understandings of the term 'youth'. The detailed analysis of new forms of marginality and social exclusion among young people offers valuable insight for policy development and political debate
