'I'm going to get this really amazing job, and I'm going to change the world, and I'm going to
be middle class, then I'll have, like, a great amount of money coming in, and I'll have a nice …

When you ask adults what they want from education, they usually refer to at least one of
these aspects:'I want to get my brain working','I want to get the education I missed out on','I …

This paper follows recent scholarship in youth studies in suggesting that young people's
aspirations for the future are deeply enmeshed within a social, cultural, and economic …

In the context of globalising labour markets, and at the same time that precarization
processes are altering young people's working and living conditions, a whole network of …

One of the central motivations of sociological endeavour, as in many other kinds of critical
and creative enterprise, is a desire to 'make the familiar strange'(and perhaps also to 'make …

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This book has considered the hopes, plans and concerns of three cohorts of young
university students in relation to their current and imagined future lives as family members …

The downstream consequences of the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) have impacted the lives
of many people. Young people, as demonstrated in Chapter 3, were acutely affected …

This PhD research explored how neoliberal governmentality influenced the UK charity
SportHelp and its youth sport programmes. Despite charities being significant providers of …

The second decade of the twenty-first century has seen a return of powerful social
movements and, with them, the idea that large groups of people can affect significant …