This is an important new book for all those interested in understanding the lives of young people and the changing social situation of youth. Written by expert scholars, and with a global perspective, the book provides an authoritative, wide-ranging, carefully-curated and accessible introduction to youth sociology. It will be of enormous value to researchers, teachers and students.

Robert MacDonald, University of Huddersfield, UK

This highly accessible volume is a comprehensive tour of sociological perspectives on youth. It is an invaluable resource for lecturers of youth related courses. The book not only provides informative reading for students of sociology and applied social sciences, but also suggests new ways to think.

Sanna Aaltonen, University of Eastern Finland

This is a text that is informed by, and wants to develop in its readers, a sociological imagination about the challenges and opportunities that structure young people's experiences in the early 21st century. The authors present a wide-ranging, historical overview of the key characteristics of the debates about young people, their interests, cultures, behaviours, engagements with education and work, fashion, culture and well-being, and provoke their readers to think critically, sociologically, about these youth issues.

Peter Kelly, RMIT University, Australia