Disconnected youth?
Subtitle: growing up in Britain's poor neighbourhoods
By: Robert MacDonald and Jane Marsh
Contributors: Marsh, Jane, 1974-; Palgrave Connect (Online service)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Houndmills [England]; New York
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780230511750; 9781280912948
Subjects: Poor youth; Social Marginality; Jeunes pauvres; Transition école-travail; Youth with social disabilities; Jeunes handicapés sociaux; Poverty; School-to-work transition; Pauvreté; Marginalité
Description: What is it like to grow up in Britain's poor neighbourhoods? How do young people get by in high unemployment, high crime localities? Have they become a 'lost generation', disconnected from society's mainstream? And do popular ideas about a socially excluded, welfare dependent 'underclass' really connect with the realities of life for Britain's young and poor? Disconnected Youth? seeks to answer these questions. It is based on recent, in-depth research undertaken in a locality that suffers all the objective problems of social exlusion in extremis. Extensive participant obeservation and qualitative interviews with a diverse set of so-called 'disengaged' and 'difficult-to-reach' young men and women provide a rare insight into the lived experience of social exclusion. A book for students, researchers and professionals.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 228-246) and index.

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Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Social Exclusion and the Underclass: Debates and Issues; title: Young People, Transitions and Social Change: Researching Disconnected Youth; title: Missing School: Educational Engagement and Youth Transitions in Poor Neighbourhoods; title: Street Corner Society: Leisure Careers and Social Exclusion; title: Paths to Work? Encounters with Youth Training, New Deal and Further Education; title: Getting Jobs: The Status of Work in Poor Neighbourhoods; title: Becoming and Being a Young Parent: Family Careers in Poor Neighbourhoods; title: Housing Careers and the Significance of Place; title: Journeys to the Margins: Drug and Criminal Careers; title: Disconnected Youth? Conclusions; title: Bibliography; title: Index.