The fourth edition of Youth and Society remains the most comprehensive and accessible textbook on the sociology of youth. Led by an expert author team, the text takes a holistic approach to the concept of youth, providing an engaging and authoritative overview of the key debates, research and theories of youth and society in Australia. Each chapter has been revised to reflect the issues confronting youth, youth researchers and policy-makers today.

NEW TO THIS EDITION

• New co-author Brady Robards brings an expertise in the sociology of youth, and sociological and cultural analyses of digital society, particularly in the of role digital social media in mediating the social and cultural lives of their users.
• New chapters: ‘Chemical Cultures’ and ‘Young People and Politics’.

PART 1: THEORISING YOUTH
1. Young People and Social Change
2. Ways of Knowing

PART 2: SOCIAL DIVISIONS
3. Gender Sexuality
4. Class, Inequality and Community Resources
5. Indigenous Youth and Indigeneity
6. Place and Mobilities

PART 3: SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS
7. Family and Belonging
8. Schooling Youth
9. Work in Precarious Economies
10. Juvenile Justice, Crime and Violence
11. Youth Policy and Active Citizenship

PART 4: SOCIAL IDENTITIES
12. Youth Identities and Cultures
13. Networked Youth and Social Media
14. Chemical Cultures
15. Wellbeing and Risk
16. Constructing a Public Presence
17. Complex Lives

Rob White is a Professor of Criminology at the School of Social Sciences at the University of Tasmania.

Johanna Wyn is a Professor and the Director of the Youth Research Centre at the Melbourne Graduate School of Education at the University of Melbourne.

Brady Robards is a Lecturer in Sociology at the School of Social Sciences at the Monash University.