Transitions, Social Mobility and Inequality

Tuesday, 8 July 2025: 11:00-12:45
Location: ASJE014 (Annex of the Faculty of Legal, Economic, and Social Sciences)
RC34 Sociology of Youth (host committee)

Language: English

This session highlights multiple approaches to youth studies as they engage with questions of social change and inequality, including presentations from all regions of the world that are both empirically rich studies of changing youth transitions and cultures and that theorize what these changes mean for conceptualizing inequality in young lives and across the life course.
Session Organizer:
Adam COOPER, Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa
Oral Presentations
Navigating Precarity in School-to-Work Transitions: The Experiences of Working-Class Youth in Indonesia
Senza ARSENDY, The University of Melbourne, Australia
Transgressing Classed Boundaries of Gender Norms in Higher Education: A Longitudinal Study of Undergraduate Students' Experiences
Liang-Wen LIN-JANUSZEWSKI, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Germany
The Qualitative Side of "Dreams"
Trivina KANG, National Institute of Education, Singapore; Kenneth POON, National Institute of Education, Singapore; Melvin CHAN, National Institute of Education, Singapore
Navigating Love and Relationships in Uncertain Times: Qls of Youth & Family Transitions
Jowita RADZINSKA, SWPS University, Poland; Paula PUSTULKA, SWPS University, Poland
Re-Envisioning the Reading Practices of Young People in France: Beyond the Opposition between Legitimistic Habitus and Popular Culture
Sylvie OCTOBRE, DEPS, France; Anne JONCHERY, Ministère de la Culture, France
What Comes after the Political Economy of Youth? Is It the Sociology of Youth?
Dan WOODMAN, University of Melbourne, Australia
Distributed Papers
Classism and Everyday Stigma: The Lived Experiences of Homeless Youths in Germany
Thomas WILKE, IU International University of Applied Sciences, Germany; Rebecca SCHMOLKE, IU International University of Applied Sciences, Germany
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