Journal of Youth Studies

Class Diplomacy: Cross-Class Friendship and Social Mobility Negotiating class based tensions and the politics of friendship

Please join us online on Wednesday March 11 (tomorrow!) at 3pm for @samfriedman.bsky.social (LSE) and Rose Butler (Deakin) for our next online seminar "Class Diplomacy: Cross-Class Friendship and Social Mobility'

The Debt Cycle Presents work from Sam Kirwan's forthcoming book

On Wednesday at 2pm we have our NYSC visitor Sam Kirwan from University of Bristol presenting on The Debt Cycle.
This will be online and for those in Newcastle please join us in person at X401 in NuSpace.

Bonding ties that get ahead?: family social capital and early occupational attainment Parents shape their children’s outcomes through multiple avenues. Parental human and financial capital are well known to influence children’s occupational attainment by enabling investments in educ...

Tom Leppard and Anna Manzoni's article was on the top 10 highest-scoring Routledge journal articles on Altmetric Explorer as recorded on Altimetric.com in the past week.
It was mentioned by 17 news outlets, 1 X user, and one blogger!

SAVE THE DATE!
Journal of Youth Studies Conference, University of Porto in May 4-6, 2027.

I'm giving talk at RMIT for the Music Industry Research Collective on Monday October 20 at 3pm on 'What is cultural sociology when culture is platformed and financialised?'

Subculture in the 21st Century A book for teaching and learning about subculture as a sociological concept

The book also has an open to anyone support site, with support materials, videos and discussion questions. If you would like multiple choice questions to set quizzes for each chapter, please email me.
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Subculture in the 21st Century: An Introduction to Subculture Studies Subculture in the 21st Century is a key text for all students of sociology and cultural studies. Drawing on case studies and supported by a range of resources on its dedicated companion website, it is...

It's finally out!
After what could only be described as a very long gestation, our edited collection is now available.
It will be great for teaching about the concept of subculture and also contains interesting contemporary examples and research case studies.
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New Possibilities: Young People and Democratic Renewal This panel shares some of the findings of the New Possibilities project

Please join us for the second in our NYSC Series Online seminar on Wednesday to hear all about New Possibilities: Young People and Democratic Renewal, featuring Philippa Collin, Judith Bessant, Luigi Di Martino, Rob Watts and Varsha Yajman.

Navigating transnational familyhood: how Chinese parachuters in the US (re)construct relationships with their parents With parents remaining in China and their children in the United States, thousands of miles away, the transnational arrangement of ‘parachuting’ entails Chinese adolescents attending high school ab...

NEW ARTICLE ALERT!
Navigating transnational familyhood: how Chinese parachuters in the US (re)construct relationships with their parents:
Sarah Köksal & Fengshu Liu
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‘It’s like a hug’: examining the role of music-making for the well-being of youth during the COVID-19 pandemic This article presents findings from a cross-disciplinary, international project that seeks to understand the importance of music-making for young people (aged 18–35 years) as a source of well-being...

‘It’s like a hug’: examining the role of music-making for the well-being of youth during the COVID-19 pandemic:
Andy Bennett, Ernesta Sofija, Ben Green,Paula Guerra, Frances Howard & Ana Oliveira
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A life course perspective on the NEET phenomenon: long-term exclusion across cohorts, gender, and social origin among young adults in Norway This study addresses the limitations of the NEET indicator (Not in Education, Employment, or Training) as a measure of the risk of social exclusion. Applying a life course analytical framework and ...

A life course perspective on the NEET phenomenon: long-term exclusion across cohorts, gender, and social origin among young adults in Norway:
Mari Amdahl Heglum & Wendy Nilsen
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Young people (de)politicizing youth cultures: agency, well-being, and claims for change This paper investigates unauthorized practices of sticker art that usually understood by scholars as political acts and yet narrated as apolitical by the sticker artists themselves. In order to ana...

Young people (de)politicizing youth cultures: agency, well-being, and claims for change:
Nadezhda Vasileva
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Individual, failing: an analysis of film portrayals of the causes of young adult coresidence from 2010–2020:
Brenan R. R. Smith, Kathrina Mazurik & Jan Gelech
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Mortgaged futures: fractured livelihoods and youth debts during COVID-19 The social and economic impacts of COVID-19 have been devastating for many, and collectively young people generally fared worse than older adults, with the impact amongst young people also being hi...

Mortgaged futures: fractured livelihoods and youth debts during COVID-19:
Anna Barford, Gerard McCarthy, Grace Mueller, Helen Osborne, Andi Misbahul Pratiwi, Kaajal Pradhan & Soniya Shrestha
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Talking about relational youth work: why language matters The literature on youth work emphasises the importance of ‘relationship’ to good practice, moreover, the characteristics of the youth-work relationship have been posited as a defining feature of yo...

Talking about relational youth work: why language matters:
Trudi Cooper, Tim Corney, Hilary Tierney, Jamie Gorman & John Sutcliffe
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Feminists, popular feminists, and transfeminists: young Argentine activists define their own identities From Iran to Uruguay, young feminist activists have taken to the streets in unprecedented numbers demanding changes to the gender status quo and its intersections with a host of oppressive social a...

Feminists, popular feminists, and transfeminists: young Argentine activists define their own identities:
Elisabeth Jay Friedman & Ana Laura Rodríguez Gustá
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From responsibilization to responsibility: justifications of everyday ecological practices of Moscow youth and worth of proactivity In modernity, responsibilization has become a tool for addressing public issues in citizens’ access to public goods, including the sphere of environmental protection. In Russia, having insufficient...

From responsibilization to responsibility: justifications of everyday ecological practices of Moscow youth and worth of proactivity:
Lebedeva Daria
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Journal of Youth Studies Volume 28, Issue 5 of Journal of Youth Studies

NEW ISSUE ALERT!
Journal of Youth Studies, Volume 28, Issue 5 (2025)
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As part of ASA, we are promoting our sociology portfolio via the Article Collection Sociology at Times of Crisis. Journal of Youth Studies is part of this collection: think.taylorandfrancis.com/sociology-at...
All articles will be Free to view until the end of January.

Editor in Chief ‪@drdanwoodman.bsky.social‬ will be taking part in the Routledge workshop at the American Sociological Association Conference on 'How Publishing Supports the Sociological Community: Insights from Sociologists and Routledge Editors' on Saturday, August 9, 10.00-11.30am.

From live-streaming to memes: an exploratory study of the Chinese abstract culture as a structure of feeling among Chinese youth The abstract culture is a youth subculture characterized by the incomprehensible, vulgar, and even abusive presentations of live streamers in China. Through online viewers’ second creation, remixin...

NEW ARTICLE ALERT!
From live-streaming to memes: an exploratory study of the Chinese abstract culture as a structure of feeling among Chinese youth:
Suheng Zhu, Zhaoyu Zhu & Thomas William Whyke
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Youth temporalities in identity boxes: own objects as embodiments of past and future transitions:
Micol Pizzolati & Alberta Giorgi
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The journey towards staying: a qualitative study on return-home youths’ empowerment in China While existing studies have focused on the role of return-home youths and macro-level factors (such as policies and local support) in urban-rural migration, this study uses participatory action res...

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The journey towards staying: a qualitative study on return-home youths’ empowerment in China:
Minmin Luo
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Alice Campbell & Fuchsia Mallinson:
Supportive geographic communities protect the mental health of LGBTQ+ youth: evidence from linked Australian data
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Tomorrow at 3pm AEST we have our first NYSC online seminar taking place on zoom.
The topic is Automating Everyday Life and we are joined by Nicholas Carah and Lauren Hayden, Joel Stern, and Thao Phan and Fabian Offert.
You can register at Eventbrite for it here www.eventbrite.com.au/e/automating...

NEETs in China: unpacking associated factors from a gender and cumulative perspective The NEET (Not in Employment, Education, or Training) concept has been studied globally but has received limited attention in China. This limited attention may be attributed to an unstable labour ma...

NEW ARTICLE ALERT!
NEETs in China: unpacking associated factors from a gender and cumulative perspective:
Ling Jiang, Xin Lin, Yuan Hao, Junyan Li & Zhirong Dong
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Imagining a future family: students with care experience Although a significant number of care experienced parents have their own children taken into care, most go on to parent without intervention from services, suggesting a complex relationship between...

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Imagining a future family: students with care experience
Katie Ellis
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Gender differences in political interest and participation among politically active youth This article examines how gendered perceptions of interest affect young people's engagement in political participation, including ‘Do-It-Ourselves Politics’. Interest in politics has long been esta...

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Gender differences in political interest and participation among politically active youth:
Silvia Behrens
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Technology-facilitated sexual violence perpetration as a tool for gender policing in secondary schools This research examines student, teacher and administrator experiences of tech-facilitated sexual violence (TFSV) in secondary schools in Ontario, Canada. TFSV includes a range of acts where digital...

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Technology-facilitated sexual violence perpetration as a tool for gender policing in secondary schools
Salsabel Almanssori, Laxana Paskaran & Kaitlynn Mendes
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The obligations and opportunities of ‘friendship as method’ in youth mentoring research: investigating the intersections with youth work epistemologies Utilising pre-existing friendships between participants to create an environment of safety and trust when researching with young people aligns well with ethics of care and reciprocity underpinning ...

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The obligations and opportunities of ‘friendship as method’ in youth mentoring research: investigating the intersections with youth work epistemologies:
Ben Arnold Lohmeyer, Kate Seymour, Tim Corney, Mike Seal, Tiffany Downing & Danika Baker
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