Sociology of youth 1
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Sociology of ‘Youth
Development’Critical Practice
Mini Lecture
Dr Fiona Beals
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Sociology of Youth
DevelopmentCritical Practice
Mini Lecture
Dr Fiona Beals
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0 It’s all about YOUth0 Issues are looked at in terms of
0 Risk/Protective Factors0 Developmental
Assets/Competencies0 Vulnerabilities0 Biological and environmental
influences on development and wellbeing
Youth Development
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But are issues like suicide that
easy to explain … could there
be other explanations?
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0 Actually … it’s not about you … th
0 It’s about the organisation of our society (our community)
0 It’s about words and groups0 The winners and the losers0 How deviance is defined0 Youth!!!
The Sociology of Youth
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0 The Western Depression0 Rise in Deviance0 Rise in suicidality
0 G.S. Hall = Storm and Stress0 E. Durkheim = Anomie and
Social Strain
1800s: G.S. Hall and E. Durkheim
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So …
0 Development theories have a strong whakapapa in western psychological theories0 This, in turn, is problematic0 Problems tend to be
centred in the individual 0 Some groups are always
seen as ‘deviant’
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So …
0 Sociological theories are critical analyses of society and inequality0 They ask about power
dynamics0 They look at class, gender,
cultural and religious factors 0 They explore hegemony0 They ask – why do some
groups get labelled and others not
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But what about youth work
0 Our history tells us a lot!!0 We are connected to the
whakapapa of the definition of youth
0 We are connected to socialisation ‘agents’0 The school0 The church0 The scouts
0 Technology and Global Development also play a role
YMCA - Wales
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Late 1800s/Early 1900s
0 The west went through economic upheaval
0 ‘Hooligans’0 GS Hall and the invention
of adolescence0 The development of
strain theories0 Compulsory education0 The Scouts are born
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1950s/1960s
0 Post-war0 The birth of the suburb0 The baby-boom
0 Technology and consumerism born
0 The invention of the ‘teenager’0 The Mazengarb report0 Erikson and Elkind0 The Chicago/Birmingham
schools0 The leaving age and youth clubs
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1970s/1980s
0 The climax and fall of the ‘modern’ world
0 Oil Crisis0 Welfare reform0 The invention of the ‘youth-at-risk’0 Longitudinal research0 Countercultural movements0 Alternative Education0 Detached Youth Work0 Critical literacy0 Academic writing of indigenous
health theories
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1990s0 Neoliberalism and the myth of global
youth culture0 Tomorrow’s Schools0 Alt Education redefined0 Informal and formal education0 Youth work moves from focusing on
risk to focusing on ‘civic’ participation
0 YDSA 0 Professionalisation of youth work0 PYD theories are developed0 Cross-sectional research 0 Cultural theories0 Critical theories0 Exploring the power of the post …
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0 The development of any theory is in response to a societal question
0 The whakapapa of psychology is problematic
0 There is a need to think beyond PYD theories alone
0 The space that youth development work occupies can allow for so much more than mere socialisation
Basically…