Transitions to Adulthood Through Recession: Youth and Inequality in a European Comparative Perspective

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Acknowledgements
1. Understanding youth transitions in difficult times
	Introduction
	Youth transitions in changing social and economic contexts
	Youth studies and a contextualist life course approach across national contexts
	Note
	References
2. Youth research meets life course terminology: The transitions paradigm revisited
	Introduction
	Historical background
	The sociology of youth
	Merits of the transitions paradigm
	Other paradigms: complementary or competitors?
	Challenges for the transitions paradigm
	Tackling other life domains
	Critical life stages
	Conclusions
	References
3. Transitions from school to work in Norway and Britain among three family generations of working-class men
	Introduction
	A contextualist life course approach and the transition to adulthood
	Historical changes across the generations: education and employment
	Analysis of the cases
	Discussion
	Conclusions
	Notes
	References
4. How parents see their children’s future: Education, work and social change in England
	Introduction
	The restructuring of youth opportunity and constraint
	Research design
	Orientations and values relating to young adult children’s education and training in contexts of change
	Orientations and values relating to young adult children’s future life chances in contexts of change
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
5. Biography, history and place: Understanding youth transitions in Teesside
	Introduction: Transitions
	Researching youth transitions and social exclusion: the Teesside Studies
	Growing up in Britain’s ‘poor neighbourhoods’: Research findings
	Explaining youth transitions in Teesside: biography, history and place
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
6. Social inequality and the transition to education and training: The significance of family background in Germany
	Introduction
	Primary and secondary education in Germany
	Tertiary and non-tertiary education
	Continuities and change in the position of young people in Germany
	Conclusions
	Notes
	References
7. Youth transitions and generations in Portugal: Examining change between baby-boomers and millennials
	Introduction
	Changing transitions through time and place
	Class and context
	The singularity of Portuguese contemporary history
	Young people and the changing labour market
	Young people and sociodemographic change
	Generations and transitions
	Middle-class immersion in the crisis and perceptions of a changed future
	Working classes coping with the present with no expectations for the future
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
	Sources
8. Young people and housing transitions: Moral obligations of intergenerational support in an Italian working-class context
	Introduction
	Intergenerational support in the Italian housing system: Leaving home in working-class contexts
	Methodology
	Practices of independence among young people and the role of parental housing support
	Ideas of ‘independence’ and ‘housing autonomy’
	Negotiating parental housing support
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
9. Young people, transition to adulthood and recession in Greece: In search of a better future
	Introduction
	The importance of transition in young people’s lives
	The crisis and its impact on Greek youth
	The methodology of the research
	The crisis in the eyes of young people
	Young people’s perceptions of Greek society
	Young Greeks’ emigration
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
10. Kinship, community and the transition to adulthood: Geographical differences and recent changes in European society
	Introduction
	The basic statistical picture
	A pragmatic explanation: levels of assistance from the welfare state
	An enhanced statistical picture
	A circumstantial explanation: the move from farming to urban life
	Community building and the transition to residential adulthood
	Communities as regimes of reproductive control
	Concluding discussion: pragmatics, community and economic stress
	Notes
	References
Index