Deconstructing Youth [electronic resource] : Youth Discourses at the Limits of Sense /
Gabriel, F.author.
Young people are regularly posited as a threat to social order and Deconstructing Youth explores why. Applying Derridean deconstruction to case studies on youth sexuality, violence and developmental neuroscience, Gabriel offers a fresh perspective on how we might attend to 'youth problems' by recasting the foundations of the concept of 'youth'.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 180-191) and index.
Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- The state of contemporary youth : conceptual underpinnings of dominant youth discourses -- Deconstruction and the question of identity -- Reasonable unreasoning : the limits of youth in the teen brain -- Presumed innocent : the paradox of 'coming of age' and the problem of youth sexuality -- Normal abnormality : coming to terms with teen violence and the undecidability of youth -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References.
Young people are regularly posited as a threat to social order and Deconstructing Youth explores why. Applying Derridean deconstruction to case studies on youth sexuality, violence and developmental neuroscience, Gabriel offers a fresh perspective on how we might attend to 'youth problems' by recasting the foundations of the concept of 'youth'.
Youth—Social life and customs.
Childhood.
Adolescence.
Social groups.
Family.
Social structure.
Social inequality.
Sociology, Urban.
Cultural studies.
Youth Culture.
Childhood, Adolescence and Society.
Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging.
Social Structure, Social Inequality.
Urban Studies/Sociology.
Cultural Studies.