Bjørn Schiermer, "Youth Collectivities "
English | ISBN: 0367404036 | 2021 | 246 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
This volume seeks to address what its contributors take to be an important lacuna in youth cultural research: a lack of interest in the phenomenon of collectivity and collective aspects of youth culture.

Marco Giugni, "Young People and Long-Term Unemployment "
English | ISBN: 0367638150 | 2022 | 188 pages | EPUB | 1486 KB
Young People and Long-Term Unemployment examines the consequences of long-term unemployment for the personal, social, and political lives of young adults aged 18-34 across four European cities: Cologne (Germany), Geneva (Switzerland), Lyon (France), and Turin (Italy).

Lynda Measor, "Young People and Community Safety: Inclusion, Risk, Tolerance and Disorder: Inclusion, Risk, Tolerance and Disorder "
English | ISBN: 1138736643 | 2017 | 288 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
This title was first published in 2000: Effective service provisions for young people are often said to be the key to Community Safety planning yet research frequently shows young people as over-controlled yet under-protected. Taking up this dilemma, this work draws upon a large survey of young people's attitudes towards the opportunities facing them and the communities in which they live. The book explores many aspects of young people's lives that adult society finds so disconcerting or threatening or which agency service providers find so difficult to address. The results of these surveys are contrasted with surveys amongst key agency personnel - social services, education, housing, police and the youth service - developing contrasting perspectives on "young people's needs". These findings are then further contrasted with a survey of adult community reactions, revealing markedly different levels of tolerance and intolerance. Discussion of the research findings is situated within a critical review of existing youth diversion and community safety policy initiatives which, by listening to young people and resisting the "demonization" of the young, attempts to take a fresh look at the contemporary "youth question".

Rachel Tynan, "Young Men's Experiences of Long-Term Imprisonment: Living Life "
English | ISBN: 0367581973 | 2020 | 178 pages | EPUB | 607 KB
Long sentenced young people are a small but significant part of the juvenile prison population. The current approach to young people convicted of serious crime speaks to wider issues in criminal and social justice, including the idealisation of (some) childhoods, processes of racialisation and identity and the sociology of the body. Analysing the relationships between biography, trauma and habitus reveals the ways in which class, racial and legal status are experienced and resisted.

Chase Joynt, "You Only Live Twice: Sex, Death, and Transition "
English | ISBN: 1552453316 | 2016 | 140 pages | EPUB | 385 KB
YOLT explores two artists' lives before and after transitions: from female to male, and from near-dead to alive.

Benjamin DeMott, "You Don't Say: Modern American Inhibitions "
English | ISBN: 1138540803 | 2018 | 240 pages | EPUB | 365 KB
In this era of political correctness, it is often impossible to say things as one would like. Indeed, certain ways of feeling and talking that were once acceptable are now, in effect, forbidden. Of course, taboos extend further than speech. Social and sexual inhibitions are also evident. Benjamin DeMott argues that the very least a society should do is to try to understand the meaning of its own inhibitions. As he writes in this new edition of You Don't Say, "a supple awareness of the effective censorship of the day can toughen resistance to clich and stereotype, and is absolutely indispensable to the survival of sharp minds."

Kevin D. Cordi, "You Don't Know Jack: A Storyteller Goes to School"
English | ISBN: 1496821254 | 2019 | 234 pages | EPUB | 281 KB
"Jack and the Beanstalk," "Little Jack Horner," and "Jack the Giant Killer" are all famous tales and rhymes featuring the same hero, a character who often appears in legends, fairy tales, and nursery rhymes. Unlike moralizing fairy tale heroes, however, Jack is typically depicted as foolish or lazy, though he often emerges triumphant through cleverness and tricks.

Andrea S. Boyles, "You Can't Stop the Revolution: Community Disorder and Social Ties in Post-Ferguson America"
English | ISBN: 0520298322 | 2019 | 240 pages | EPUB | 567 KB
You Can't Stop the Revolution is a vivid participant ethnography conducted from inside of Ferguson protests as the Black Lives Matter movement catapulted onto the global stage. Sociologist Andrea S. Boyles offers an everyday montage of protests, social ties, and empowerment that coalesced to safeguard black lives while igniting unprecedented twenty-first‑century resistance. Focusing on neighborhood crime prevention and contentious black citizen-police interactions in the context of preserving black lives, this book examines how black citizens work to combat disorder, crime, and police conflict. Boyles offers an insider's analysis of cities like Ferguson, where a climate of indifference leaves black neighborhoods vulnerable to conflict, where black lives are seemingly expendable, and where black citizens are held responsible for their own oppression.

Greta de Jong, "You Can't Eat Freedom: Southerners and Social Justice after the Civil Rights Movement"
English | ISBN: 1469654792 | 2016 | 320 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Two revolutions roiled the rural South after the mid-1960s: the political revolution wrought by the passage of civil rights legislation, and the ongoing economic revolution brought about by increasing agricultural mechanization. Political empowerment for black southerners coincided with the transformation of southern agriculture and the displacement of thousands of former sharecroppers from the land. Focusing on the plantation regions of Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi, Greta de Jong analyzes how social justice activists responded to mass unemployment by lobbying political leaders, initiating antipoverty projects, and forming cooperative enterprises that fostered economic and political autonomy, efforts that encountered strong opposition from free market proponents who opposed government action to solve the crisis.

Frank S Mendez, "You Can't Be Mexican: You Talk Just Like Me "
English | ISBN: 0873388224 | 2005 | 96 pages | EPUB | 893 KB
A firsthand account of the immigrant experience in America