Introduction: Setting out on a Journey -- 1. Royal Dynasties -- 2. Noble Dynasties -- 3. Entrepreneurial Dynasties -- 4. The Learned -- 5. Artists -- 6. Statuses on the Move -- 7. Afterthoughts.This book takes a novel approach to family, exploring in detail how status is inherited and maintained within families; the process of upward social mobility; and how the roots of social decline start wi…
1. Introduction -- 2. The landscape of elderly care and the proliferation of struggles -- 3. Theorizing elderly care -- 4. Silences that matter -- 5. Regulating care – and struggles about regulation -- 6. Conclusion: A new analytics for (elderly) care.This book provides a critical engagement with the intensified struggles to be found within elderly care provision. Various social and political…
Preface: Evaluation and governing in two quotes or When the arithmetician met the curator -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Understanding Evaluation in the UK -- Chapter 3: Disciplinary Measures -- Chapter 4: Transformative Possibilities.This book interrogates the role played by evaluation in 21st century governing. Using youth work in the UK as a case study, it challenges the narrative …
Introduction -- Maggie Walter, Karen Martin and Gawaian Bodkin-Andrews -- 1. Introducing the Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children; Maggie Walter, Mick Dodson and Sharon Barnes; 2 -- The Story of the LSIC: It’s all about Trust and Vision; Maggie Walter Karen L. Martin -- 3. LSIC: Procedural ethics through an Indigenous ethical lens; Terry Dunbar and Margaret Scrimgeour -- 4. Culture and I…
Introduction -- From “Blind Susan” to Incidents in the Life of a Blind Girl: How Mary L. Day Disabled Domesticity -- Crossing the Threshold: Disability and Modernist Housing -- The Largest Occupational Group of All the Disabled: Homemakers with Disabilities and Vocational Rehabilitation in Postwar America -- Rethinking the American Dream Home: The Disability Rights Movement and the Cult…
This book examines patterns of political engagement of long-term unemployed youth. The authors show how unemployment affects the personal, social, and political life of young people. Focusing on the case of Geneva in Switzerland, the study shows the importance of socioeconomic, relational, psychological, and institutional resources for the political engagement of unemployed youth. The book show…
Open AccessThis book explores how feelings about gender have changed over three interrelated generations of women and men of different social classes during the twentieth century. The author explores the ways in which generational experiences are connected, what is continued, what triggers gradual or abrupt changes between generations - and between women and men within these generations. The b…
1. Introduction -- 2. Class Matters -- 3. Education, Social Mobility and the Enduring Nature of Class -- 4. Young People, Work and Social Class -- 5. Youth, Class and Intersectionality -- 6. Towards a Research Agenda for Youth Studies.This book addresses the recent marginalisation of class theory in youth sociology. The authors argue for the importance of reinstating class analysis as central t…
1. What Do We Mean by ‘Child Online Safety’ -- 2. Public Concern and the Policy “Solution” -- 3. Young People and Digital Lives -- 4. Gaming: Violent Content = Violent Children? -- 5. Sexting: “The Teen Epidemic” -- 6. How Big is the Gulf? -- 7. Where next?This book explores the use of technology in young people’s social lives against a backdrop of “online safety measures” put…
1. Introduction: Chinese Fatherhood Revisited -- 2. From Control to Care: Historicizing Family and Fatherhood in Hong Kong -- 3. Power of Invisible Care -- 4. The Cultural Parent -- 5. Marrying Masculine Responsibility -- 6. Rethinking Fatherhood.This book is about how Chinese men make sense of and practise fatherhood within the context of changing gender conventions and socio-cultural conditio…