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Introduction for Special Section of Sociological Research Online: The Marginalised Mainstream: Making Sense of the 'Missing Middle' of Youth Studies

Roberts, Steven D., MacDonald, Robert (2013) Introduction for Special Section of Sociological Research Online: The Marginalised Mainstream: Making Sense of the 'Missing Middle' of Youth Studies. Sociological Research Online, 18 (1). p. 21. ISSN 1360-7804. (doi:10.5153/sro.2929) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:42836)

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Abstract

Research in the field of youth studies has produced many important insights and has been influential in critiquing, shaping, and changing our understandings of, and social policies in respect of, young people's lives. The social scientific focus has, rightly so, oftentimes been on those young people more obviously situated on the margins of society and possibly at risk of becoming excluded or disconnected from it. There has been some occasional and direct research interest in the lives of more advantaged young people who follow more successful youth transitions through extended education. Often, however, it is taken for granted that those on 'slow track transitions' are 'successful' - and un-problematic in social policy terms. Regardless, in adopting this dualism successful versus unsuccessful transitions, slow-track versus fast track trajectories, advantaged versus disadvantaged youth research is in danger of ignoring the experiences of young people who fall somewhere in-between.

Item Type: Article
DOI/Identification number: 10.5153/sro.2929
Subjects: H Social Sciences
Divisions: Divisions > Division for the Study of Law, Society and Social Justice > School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research
Depositing User: N. Gregory
Date Deposited: 05 Sep 2014 09:24 UTC
Last Modified: 16 Nov 2021 10:17 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/42836 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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