Childhood, Youth And Social Change: A Comparative Perspective

Childhood and youth studies in the United Kingdom and West Germany - an introduction, Lynne Chisholm, Philip Brown, Peter Buchner and Heinz- Herrmann Kruger what does the future hold? youth and socio-cultural change in the FRG, Jurgen Zinneker a sharper lens or a new camera? youth research, young people and social change in Britain, Lynne Chisholm persons in their own right - children and sociology in the UK, Diana Leonard growing up in the Eighties - changes in the social biography in the FRG, Peter Buchner schooling and economic life in the UK, Philip Brown caught between standardization and disintergration - changes in the life-phase "Youth" in West Germany since 1945, Heinz-Hermann Kruger the shifting sands of a social contract - young people in the transition between school and work, Helga Kruger beyond individualization - what sort of social change?, Gill Jones and Claire Wallace patriachy for children - on the stability of power relations in children's lives, John Hood-Williams illusory equality - discipline-based anticipatory socialisation and the reproduction of social inequalities at university, Steffani Engler youth, race and language in contemporary Britain - deconstructing ethnicity?, Roger Hewitt how "Black" are the German Turks?, ethnicity, marginality and inter-ethnic relations for young people of Turkish origin in the FRG, Georg Auernheimer changing leisure and cultural patterns among British youth, Michael Brake West German youth cultures at the close of the Eighties, Wilfried Ferchhoff.