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Article: Generation, youth and social change in Australia.(YOUTH (GENERAL))(Survey)(Brief article)
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- Youth Studies Australia
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- March 1, 2007
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J. Wyn & D. Woodman, Journal of Youth Studies, v.9, n.5, 2006, pp.495-514.
Highlighting the shortcomings of conceptualising 'youth' as a linear, transitional life-phase between childhood and adulthood, this paper investigates 'generation' as a more appropriate framework for conceptualising youth. The term 'transition' implies a set of universal, normative attitudes and behaviours experienced as young people enter adulthood, as defined by the experiences of the previous generation, from which all deviations are 'faulty'. Conversely, 'generation' acknowledges the specific economic, social, cultural and political contexts inhabited by young people from different ...