Innovations in Youth Research [electronic resource] /
Heath, S.editor.
Walker, C.editor.
This book explores and celebrates imaginative and creative approaches to youth research, showcasing a wide range of innovative methods including music elicitation, mental mapping, blog analysis and mobile methods.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; 1 Innovations in Youth Research: An Introduction; 2 Unravelling Attachments to Extreme Metal Music with 'Music Elicitation'; 3 Meaningful Meanderings: Using Mobile Methods to Research Young People's Everyday Lives; 4 The Use of Mental Maps in Youth Research: Some Evidence from Research Exploring Young People's Awareness of and Attachment to Place; 5 Making Sense of Mixed Method Narratives: Young People's Identities, Life-Plans, and Time Orientations
6 Involving Young People as Peer Researchers in Research on Community Relations in Northern Ireland7 Multiple Facets of People and Place: Exploring Youth Identity and Aspirations in Madurai, South India; 8 Using Video in a Participatory, Multi-Method Projecton Young People's Everyday Lives in Rural East Germany: A Critical Reflection; 9 Young People and Policy Research: Methodological Challenges in CYP-Led Research; 10 Youth Research in Web 2.0: A Case Study in Blog Analysis; 11 Public Profiles, Private Parties: Digital Ethnography, Ethics and Research in the Context of Web 2.0
12 Positionality and Difference in Cross-Cultural Youth Research: Being 'Other' in the Former Soviet Union13 Double Reflexivity: The Politics of Friendship, Fieldwork and Representation within Ethnographic Studies of Young People; 14 Conclusion; References; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This book explores and celebrates imaginative and creative approaches to youth research, showcasing a wide range of innovative methods including music elicitation, mental mapping, blog analysis and mobile methods.
Social groups.
Family.
Youth—Social life and customs.
Social sciences.
Social work.
Childhood.
Adolescence.
Sociology.
Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging.
Youth Culture.
Methodology of the Social Sciences.
Social Work.
Childhood, Adolescence and Society.
Sociology, general.