ESA Research Networks

Youth and Generation

 

‘Rethinking Inequalities’ 7th Conference of European Sociological Association, Torun 9th-12th September 2005

 

Session programme

 

ESA 2005 - YOUTH AND GENERATION RESEARCH NETWORK

 

 

DATE/TIME

Session plan

 

 

 

Friday 9 September
18.00-20.00

1

VULNERABLE YOUTH

 

 

Nalita James
Actup!’ Theatre as Education: (Re-)engaging Young People back into Learning

Chair:

Jean Charles Lagree

 

Tihana Novak, Ivana Jedud
Coping strategies of young people in difficult life situations: qualitative study

lagree@ext.jussieu.fr

 

Thomas Sauvadet
Young people living in poor areas and “outlaw culture” ?

 

 

 

Saturday 10 September
9.00-11.00

2a

MINORITY YOUTH: DIVERSITY AND DISADVANTAGE IN EUROPE

 

 

Ravinder Barn
Young people, ethnicity and mental health: An analysis of risk and protective factors

Chair:

Ravinder Barn

 

Serdar M. Degirmencioglu, Sinem Silay
Young people doing democracy: Stories and a model of engagement

R.Barn@rhul.ac.uk

 

Jordi Pŕmies Rovira, Maribel Ponferrada Arteaga
Reconstructing new identities in the outskirts of Barcelona: sons and daughters of immigrant and working class families

 

 

 

Saturday 10 September
9.00-11.00

2b

TRANSITIONS INTO ADULT LIFE

 

 

Tina Bäckström
Educational choice among youth - an expression of an extended individualisation?

Chair:

Jacqueline Scott

 

Mark Cieslik, Donald Simpson
The Role of Basic Skills in Transitions to Adulthood

jls1004@cam.ac.uk

 

Herwig Reiter
Youth, work and unemployment in the 'new West' – the transformation of social integration through unemployment

 

 

Vesa Puuronen
Methodological starting points and problems of youth research

Saturday 10 September
15.00-17.00

3a

GENDER/SEX

 

 

Sanna Aaltonen

Girls behaving badly? Young people constructing gender

Chair:

Tracy Shildrick

 

Sinikka Aapola
The Golden Youth? Media Representations of Successful Young People in Finland

T.A.Shildrick@tees.ac.uk

 

Eileen Green, Carrie Singleton
‘I’m lost without my mobile’: mobile technologies, gender and culture in lives of young South Asian women and men

 

 

Nadia Mantovani
Deciding motherhood: the experiences of Black ethnic minority young women in Britain?

 

 

 

Saturday 10 September
15.00-17.00

3b

POLITICAL PARTICIPATION AND MOVEMENTS

 

 

Lenka Chludova, Celina Del Felice, Lenka Chludova, Rachel Eichholz, Maria Kooijman
Youth in Peacebuilding: Developing criteria to identify the best practices

Chair:

Aleksander Shashkin

 

Lidia M. Kourakina
«Underwater-line stones» of Political Culture of Young Russians.

shashkin@mail.ru

 

Ladislav Machacek
Political Participation –young people in Slovakia

 

 

Kari Paakkunainen
“Freedom’s Children” – Young people and their political participation in the triangular empirical analyses of eight countries in Europe


 

Saturday 10 September
19.30-20.30

 

Business Meeting

Sunday 11 September
9.00-11.00

4a

WORK LIFE STRATEGIES

 

 

Sara Cervantes
Entrepreneur education – a strategy to establish positive attitudes towards enterprising?

Chair: Fred Cartmel

 

Maria Carla Corrochano
Youth Trajectories, Public Policies and the Crisis of Work in Săo Paulo, Brazil

f.cartmel@socsci.gla.ac.uk

 

Alexander Shashkin
Understanding violent youth cultures in Russia: form ‘deviance’ to ‘participation’

Sunday 11 September
9.00-11.00

4b

INTERGENERATIONAL ISSUES

 

 

Britta Jonsson
Generational Waves of New Social Movements.

Chair:

Sanna Aaltonen

 

Radim Marada
Accelerated Generational Conflict after 1989: the case of the Czech Republic

sanna.aaltonen@helsinki.fi

 

Miguel Arenas Martinez
Old and young in Spain: needs and lifestyles as opposite characteristics

 

 

Louis Chauvel
Generations and Social Inequalities in a comparative perspective: Transitional Socialization and Scarring Effects in Post-Affluent Societies

 

 

 

Sunday 11 September
15.00-17.00

5a

AGE

 

 

Fred Cartmel, Andy Furlong, Andy Biggart, Helen Sweeting and Patrick West
Managing Transitions: a biographical approach

Chair:

Sinikka Aapola

 

Raili Nugin
Construction of youth in Estonia - object of risk or desire?

Sinikka.Aapola@helsinki.fi

 

Jacqueline Scott
Identity and Inequalities:  Perceptions of Age across the Life Course

 

 

Tracy Shildrick, Robert MacDonald

Critical moments, poverty and health: biographical experiences of mortality and morbidity in marginalised youth transitions

 

 

 

Sunday 11 September
15.00-17.00

5b

Europe

 

 

Georg Datler, Reingard Spannring, Claire Wallace
What leads young people to identify with Europe? An exploration of “exposure” to Europe and resources for identification among young Europeans

Chair:

Ladislav Machacek

 

Domunco Constantin Florin
Youth between Modern and Postmodern Values in Romanian Transition to European Union

Ladislav.machacek@ucm.sk

 

Ewa Krzaklewska
Leaving home and going abroad - emerging adults in Europe in search of an adult identity.

 

 

Jussi Ronkainen
Young Dual Citizens – Many Memberships, How Many Homes?

 

 

 

Sunday 11 September
17.30-19.30

6a

LOCAL/GLOBAL

 

 

Pat O’Connor
Local/Global elements in Young People’s Drawings and Related Texts

Chair:

Vesa Puuronen

 

Zsuzsa Vajda
Local knowledge in youth empowerment, Epres, 1999-2003

vesa.puuronen@joensuu.fi

 

G. Demet Lukuslu
Comprehending Apathy and Apolitical Behaviour: Rethinking Over Politics Based on the Turkish Youth’s Political Experience

 

 

Klaus Levinsen, Carsten Yndigegn
Youth, mobility and local attachment – patterns of the development of social networks and political participation


 

Sunday 11 September
17.30-19.30

6b

INTERNET, ICT AND MASS MEDIA

 

 

Dianne Looker, Victor Thiessen
Youth and Inequality in Canada: the effects of Information and Communication Technology on Equity issues for youth.

Chair:

Gary Pollock

 

Jordi Sanz Porras, Adriana Gil Juarez 
Intimacy and sociality among adolescents: translocal images and reshaping practices in internet cafés in Barcelona

G.Pollock@mmu.ac.uk

 

Olga Pronina
Education and Personality

 

 

Lia Pappámikail
One of us, One of them:  the use of new technologies in youth research. Remarks on a research experience

 

 

 

Monday 12 September
9.00-11.00

7a

HEALTH BEHAVIOUR

 

 

Natalia Goncharova, Lenar Sultanov
Social Risk of HIV-epidemic spreading in contemporary Russian Society

Chair:

Serdar Degirmencioglu

 

Daria Omelchenko
HIV expansion in injecting drug users (IDUs)’ social networks

serdard@bilgi.edu.tr

 

Charles Berg, Jean-Louis Meyer, Marianne Milmeister
Access to well-being – a cultural or structural reading?

 

 

Noémi Keresztes
Recreational patterns and leisure time sportsactivities among Hungarian adolescents

 

 

 

Monday 12 September
9.00-11.00

7b

YOUTH CULTURE, VALUES AND THE LIFE COURSE

 

 

Rafael Merino
Linking experiences in free time to education and work pathways in young people: segregation or compensation?

Chair:

Britta Jonsson

 

Erika Wall
Values and risk perception among young people - explaining differences of risk perceptions through differences of values

Britta.Jonsson@lhs.se

 

Ken Roberts
What’s The Point In Studying Youth Cultures?

 

 

 

Monday 12 September
15.00-17.00

8

SOCIAL INEQUALITIES

 

 

Olga Urzha
Economic potential of a region as a factor of social inequality among the youth

Chair:

Carsten Yndigegn

 

Christer Hyggen
From Private to Public Provision - long term effects of social assistance recipiency in youth

cy@sam.sdu.dk

 

Markku Jahnukainen
Risk and survival routes: high-risk young people in transition to adulthood in Finland

 

 

Manuel Jacinto Sarmento, Balbina Maria Fernandes
Child poverty and public policies – the Portuguese case