Innovations in Youth Research", Sue Heath y Charlie Walker (ed.) Palgrave Macmillan, Hampshire, 2012

Gentile, Alessandro (Universidad de Zaragoza)

Resumen: The analysis of young people’s life conditions is continuously under debate in social sciences. This book joins such debate drawing special attention to qualitative methods of research in youth studies. As young people’s characteristics become more diversified and fragmented, methodological research designs are modifying their applications in order to gain a better understanding of how the category of ‘youth’ should be defined and interpreted. Information and communication technologies, new social networks, and personal relations and interactions in a globalized world as well as new forms of consumption, social entertainment, and circumstance routines at a local level make young people’s lives more variable and substantially different than previous decades. In this framework, as the two editors (Sue Heath, from the University of Manchester, and Charlie Walker, from the University of Southampton) outline since the very beginning of the introduction, an increasing demand of new research questions, new sources of data, and new areas of inquiry are addressing recent youth studies through new imaginative and creative approaches. If sociology, anthropology, and ethnology want to follow the rapid changes recorded by young people, innovation seems to be their inevitable destiny, from both theoretical and methodological points of view.

Idioma: Inglés

DOI: 10.1177/1468794113480322

Año: 2013

Publicado en: QUALITATIVE RESEARCH 13, 4 (2013), 468-470
ISSN: 1468-7941

Factor impacto JCR: 1.416 (2013)

Categ. JCR: SOCIOLOGY rank: 24 / 134 = 0.179 (2013) - Q1 - T1
Categ. JCR: SOCIAL SCIENCES, INTERDISCIPLINARY rank: 13 / 92 = 0.141 (2013) - Q1 - T1

Tipo y forma: (PrePrint)

Área (Departamento): Área Sociología (Dpto. Psicología y Sociología)