Symposium: (5th ISA Forum of Sociology (6-11 July 2025))

RC34 Sociology of Youth

Program Coordinators: Dan WOODMAN (University of Melbourne, Australia) and Ilaria PITTI (University of Bologna, Department of Sociology and Business Law, Italy)

Monday, 7 July 2025

09:00-10:45

Educational Workshop: How to Teach Students about Social Polarisation?
Session Organizers: Agata KOMENDANT-BRODOWSKA, nataliiA.sokolovska SOKOLOVSKA and Wander JAGER

Presidential Session: Cultures, Transitions, Identities and Politics - Intersecting Approaches in Youth Studies
Session Organizer: Dan WOODMAN

11:00-12:45

Beyond the Moral Panic of Juvenile Vacuity. Exploring Ambivalences and Potentialities in Young People “Doing Nothing”
Session Organizers: Ilaria PITTI, Caterina SATTA and Sebastiano BENASSO

Les Jeunes Face Aux Phénomènes Urbains
Session Organizer: Imane ARKHIS

13:00-14:45

Ambiguous Subjects in a Global Generation. Understanding Youth from Biographical Approaches, Part I
Session Organizers: Joschka PHILIPPS and Gérard AMOUGOU
Chair: Gérard AMOUGOU

COVID-19, Substance Use, and the Impact of Risk upon the Lives and Futures of Youth
Session Organizers: Sampson BLAIR, Sheila MAXWELL and Patricia CLASTER
Chair: Timothy MADIGAN

15:00-16:45

(Dis)Entangling Young People’s Everyday Lives from the Anthropocene amid Escalating Disasters and Climate Change: Justice, Activism and Implications for Those Working with Young People
Session Organizers: Trudi COOPER, Fiona MACDONALD and Maria PISANI
Chairs: Tim CORNEY and Trudi COOPER

Young People and the Future of Work
Session Organizers: Hiroyuki KUBOTA and Naoki IGUCHI

Tuesday, 8 July 2025

09:00-10:45

Sociological Diagnosis of the Times from a Viewpoint of Changing Youth Cultures
Session Organizers: Izumi TSUJI and Tomohiko ASANO

Young People and Emotions in Actions. the Role of Emotions in Prosocial Behaviours Among the Young Generations
Session Organizers: Maurizio MERICO and Gennaro IORIO

11:00-12:45

Transitions, Social Mobility and Inequality
Session Organizer: Adam COOPER

13:00-14:45

Young People and Stories of/for the Anthropocene
Session Organizer: Peter KELLY

Youth in the Mediterranean Area: Facing the Anthropocene (1)
Session Organizers: Maurizio MERICO and Rachid JARMOUNI
Chairs: Rachid JARMOUNI and Maurizio MERICO

15:00-16:45

International Student Mobility and Contested Knowledges
Session Organizers: Rachel BROOKS and Vera SPANGLER
Chair: Rachel BROOKS

Youth in the Mediterranean Area: Facing the Anthropocene (2)
Session Organizers: Maurizio MERICO and Rachid JARMOUNI
Chairs: Rachid JARMOUNI and Maurizio MERICO

19:00-20:30

RC34 Business Meeting

Wednesday, 9 July 2025

09:00-10:45

Jeunes Ruraux: Injustices Multiformes
Session Organizers: Zakaria KADIRI and Fadma AIT MOUS

Youth Sociology in the Digital Era (1) the Brics
Session Organizer: Natalia WAECHTER
Chair: Chunling LI

11:00-12:45

Youth Sociology in the Digital Era (2)
Session Organizer: Tom DWYER
Chair: Chunling LI

Youth in Latin America and the Caribbean: Policies, Youth Resistance and Impact on Inequalities and Injustices
Session Organizers: Ada Cora FREYTES FREY and Agustina CORICA

13:00-14:45

Examining Contemporary Youth Transitions through Qualitative Longitudinal Research (1)
Session Organizers: Hernan CUERVO, PhD and Ana MIRANDA

15:00-16:45

Political Socialization of Younger Generations: Participation, Beliefs, Attitudes and Knowledge (1).
Session Organizers: Daniel MIRANDA and Janina SUPPERS

Examining Contemporary Youth Transitions through Qualitative Longitudinal Research (2)
Session Organizers: Ana MIRANDA and Hernan CUERVO, PhD

Thursday, 10 July 2025

09:00-10:45

Islands of Youth Belonging: Between Processes of Mobilities and Territories (1)
Session Organizers: Valentina CUZZOCREA and Anita HARRIS
Chair: Anita HARRIS

Transnational Dimension of Youth Political Participation
Session Organizers: Airi-Alina ALLASTE and Ewa KRZAKLEWSKA
Chair: Ewa KRZAKLEWSKA

11:00-12:45

Islands of Youth Belonging: Between Processes of Mobilities and Territories (2)
Session Organizers: Valentina CUZZOCREA and Anita HARRIS
Chair: Valentina CUZZOCREA

13:00-14:45

Justice, Action and Institutions: Youth Activism and the Future of Democracies
Session Organizers: Andreas KARSTEN, Ada Cora FREYTES FREY and Nicté CASTAÑEDA CAMEY

Youth Futures in the Global South (1) Aspiration
Session Organizer: Sharlene SWARTZ

15:00-16:45

Youth Futures in the Global South (2) Resistance
Session Organizer: Sharlene SWARTZ

Friday, 11 July 2025

09:00-10:45

Contested Everyday Temporalities. Children and Youth in Contemporary Changing Worlds.
Session Organizers: Ana MIRANDA and Valeria LLOBET

How Can Sociology of Youth Research Catalyse Radical Social Change and Intergenerational Mobility?
Session Organizer: Adam COOPER

11:00-12:45

The Milltown Boys over 50 Years: An Ethnography Reflection on a Career in Youth Studies
Session Organizer: Dan WOODMAN
Chair: Ilaria PITTI

13:00-14:45

Sociological Understandings of Health and Well-Being Among Young People
Session Organizers: Chandni BASU and Jayanathan PERUMAL GOVENDER

15:00-16:45

Presidential Session: Opportunities for a Global Youth Studies
Session Organizer: Dan WOODMAN
Chair: Abeer MUSLEH