Lectures: 17.04.03
Lecture One
Theoretical perspectives: early beginnings to present day
Lecture Two
Feminist challenges to youth and trouble: focus on teenage pregnancy and crime
The academic literature on `delinquent youth' arises in part from official concern over young people's activities outside direct adult supervision by parents, teachers or employers.
Griffin, C. (1993) Representations of Youth: The Study of
Adolescence in Britain and America, Cambridge: Polity
Press.
and:
A set of concerns about the activities of young people and their supervision by
institutions or individuals representing the social order.
Johnston, L. (1993:96) The Modern Girl: Girlhood and Growing Up, Sydney: Allen & Unwin
Youth and trouble: theoretical perspectives
Biological determinism
Psychological theories
Sociological theories
Blumer's symbolic interactionism rests on three premises:
humans act towards things on the basis of meanings that the things have for them
the......

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