| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Cover -- Youth Prospects in the Digital Society: Identities and Inequalities in an Unravelling Europe -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- List of abbreviations -- About the authors -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction: Pathways to adulthood -- Themes and contexts -- Changing life course -- Cultural change -- Advent of the COVID-19 pandemic -- Preview of this volume -- 1 Social structure and inequality -- US and Europe at the front of rising inequality -- Globalisation and path-dependency -- Employability and social class in the digital society |
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Education and the unequal distribution of life chances -- Do working-class kids still get working-class jobs? -- Migrants and refugees with limited prospects -- Social class, generation and youth prospects -- Conclusion -- 2 Identity and social media -- Self and identity -- Stages in identity formation -- Biographical resource -- Impact of digital society -- Digital employment -- Digital communication -- Selective self-presentation -- Honesty and deception -- Psychological effects -- Conclusion -- 3 Youth and Europe -- Social justice and the distribution of resources |
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Youth unemployment and poverty -- The wider benefits of the EU youth agenda -- Political participation and protest -- EU integration and cultural diversity -- Conclusion -- 4 Navigating the transition to adulthood -- The dual system of vocational education and training -- Comparing transitions -- Restructuring of the occupational system -- Precarious transitions -- Social class and the welfare mix -- Changing educational pathways -- Self-employment as an alternative path -- Transition problems: IT addiction, crime -- Conclusion -- 5 Education, capability and skills |
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Origins of the education problem -- Internet of things and everything -- Educational challenges -- Skills and capability -- Reframing the curriculum -- Computers versus people -- Countries compared -- Digital exclusion -- Capability and freedom -- Conclusion -- 6 Smart families and community -- Digitalisation and its counterparts -- Intergenerational relations -- The class -- Family interactions -- Social networking and social capital -- False hopes -- Existential risks -- Cultural and health challenges -- Media education -- Conclusion -- 7 Political participation, mobilisation and the internet |
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The role of the internet -- Interest in European and national political issues -- Social media and political advertising -- New youth movements in the making: Fridays for Future and Momentum -- Political education as enlightenment about the digital media -- Conclusion -- 8 Impact of COVID-19 on youth -- COVID-19 and youth prospects -- Labour market -- Education and training -- Family functioning -- Health and well-being -- Social media and politics -- Where next? -- Conclusion -- Conclusions: Youth policy challenges -- Changes -- Rising to the challenges -- Digital society -- Education |
| Summary |
This book assesses the challenges young people face in the contemporary labour markets of England and Germany in the context of mass migration, rising nationalism and accelerating technological change, and considers the resources and skills young people in Europe will need in the future |
| Notes |
Smart family |
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Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 12, 2021) |
| Subject |
Youth -- Great Britain -- Social conditions -- History -- 21st century
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Youth -- Germany -- Social conditions -- History -- 21st century
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Children's Studies.
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Youth -- Social conditions
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Germany
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Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Heinz, Walter R., author
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| ISBN |
1447351479 |
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9781447351498 |
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1447351495 |
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9781447351474 |
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