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Title Indian youth in a transforming world : attitudes and perceptions / edited by Peter Ronald deSouza, Sanjay Kumar, Sandeep Shastri
Published New Delhi, India ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (xxix, 176 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; The Big Story; Executive Summary; Through the Lens of Indian Youth: An Overview; Trust and Circles of Belonging; Family and Social Networks; Leisure and Lifestyle; Politics and Democracy; Governance and Development; Nation and the World; Anxiety and Aspirations; Appendices
Summary This book comprises the first nationwide study based on face-to-face interviews with 5000 youth to capture the popular mood of this important demographic segment of contemporary India. It records their perceptions of various issues, ranging from modernity, development, globalization and unemployment, to leisure and lifestyle, social networks and family, and their hopes and aspirations for the future. While it breaks some myths about them, on one hand, it helps strengthen some commonly shared perceptions about them, on the other. Indian Youth in a Transforming World: Attitudes and Perceptions u
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Subject Youth -- India -- Attitudes
Youth -- India -- Social conditions
Youth -- India -- Public opinion
Adolescent psychology -- India
Public opinion -- India
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Life Stages -- Adolescence.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Life Stages -- Teenagers.
Adolescent psychology
Public opinion
Youth -- Attitudes
Youth -- Public opinion
Youth -- Social conditions
India
Form Electronic book
Author deSouza, Peter Ronald, 1956-
Kumar, Sanjay, 1967-
Shastri, Sandeep.
ISBN 9788132102564
8132102568
9788132112013
8132112016
9788132101710
8132101715