Symposium: (XVIII ISA World Congress of Sociology (July 13-19, 2014))

RC34 Sociology of Youth

Program Coordinators: James COTE (University of Western Ontario, Canada), Howard WILLIAMSON (University of South Wales, United Kingdom) and Ani WIERENGA (University of Melbourne, Australia)

Monday, July 14, 2014

10:30 AM-12:20 PM

583

Japanese Youth Studies
Session Organizers: Tomohiko ASANO and Ichiyo HABUCHI

3:30 PM-5:20 PM

584

Youth Education-Work Nexus: Potentialities, Vulnerabilities and Resilience
Session Organizer: Clarence M. BATAN

5:30 PM-7:20 PM

585

Presidential Session 1. Youth in Emergent Prosperity: Perspectives for the Sociology of Youth in the BRICS Countries
Session Organizer: Tom DWYER

7:30 PM-8:50 PM

586

Presidential Session 2: Youth in Austerity
Session Organizer: Howard WILLIAMSON

Tuesday, July 15, 2014

8:30 AM-10:20 AM

JS-16

Constructing Gender within Youth Activism
Session Organizers: Anna-Britt COE and Darcie VANDEGRIFT

10:30 AM-12:20 PM

587

Building a Transnational Sense of Justice among Youth in a Globalized World
Session Organizers: Vincenzo CICCHELLI, Nicole GALLANT, Sarah PICKARD and Ian WOODWARD

3:30 PM-5:20 PM

588

Faces of Uncertain Transitions to Adulthood Across Cultures. Part I: Strategies
Session Organizers: Christoph H. SCHWARZ and Lutz EICHLER

5:30 PM-7:20 PM

589

Faces of Uncertain Transitions to Adulthood Across Cultures. Part II: Problems
Session Organizers: Christoph H. SCHWARZ and Lutz EICHLER

7:30 PM-8:50 PM

590

RC34 Business Session Meeting

Wednesday, July 16, 2014

8:30 AM-10:20 AM

591

Unequal Age: Young People, Inequality and Youth Work
Session Organizer: Michael HEATHFIELD

3:30 PM-5:20 PM

592

Chronotopes of Youth: Spaces and Times of Youth Cultures in the Global City
Session Organizers: Carmen LECCARDI, Pam NILAN and Carles FEIXA

5:30 PM-7:20 PM

593

Time and Space in Youth Studies
Session Organizers: Dan WOODMAN and Carmen LECCARDI

Thursday, July 17, 2014

8:30 AM-10:20 AM

594

Youth Unemployment / Underemployment and Precarity. Part I
Session Organizers: John GOODWIN and Henrietta O'CONNOR

10:30 AM-12:20 PM

595

Youth Unemployment / Underemployment and Precarity. Part II
Session Organizers: John GOODWIN and Henrietta O'CONNOR

3:30 PM-5:20 PM

596

Towards a Comparative Sociology of Youth: Alternative Frameworks and Empirical Advances. Part I: Qualitative Approaches
Session Organizers: Tuukka TOIVONEN and Mikito TERACHI

5:30 PM-7:20 PM

597

Towards a Comparative Sociology of Youth: Alternative Frameworks and Empirical Advances. Part II: Quantitative Approaches
Session Organizers: Mikito TERACHI and Tuukka TOIVONEN

Friday, July 18, 2014

8:30 AM-10:20 AM

598

Methodological and Theoretical Advances in a Global Youth Sociology
Session Organizer: Ani WIERENGA

10:30 AM-12:20 PM

599

Youth and Social Media: Transformative Agents of Social Change
Session Organizers: Smita VERMA and Vinod CHANDRA

3:30 PM-5:20 PM

600

Troubled Youth, Troubled Families?
Session Organizer: Ara FRANCIS

5:30 PM-7:20 PM

JS-76

Leisure as an Agency for Collective Mobilization of Youth and the Quest for Equality
Session Organizers: Ishwar MODI and James COTE

Saturday, July 19, 2014

8:30 AM-10:20 AM

601

The Youth Research Journey and How to Address It: Method and Ethics
Session Organizer: Kitty TE RIELE

10:30 AM-12:20 PM

JS-85

Youth and Social Movements. Part I
Session Organizers: Airi-Alina ALLASTE and Benjam�n TEJERINA
Chair: Airi-Alina ALLASTE

12:30 PM-2:20 PM

602

Social Inequality in Young People`s Housing Transitions
Session Organizers: Marc MOLGAT and Miriam MEUTH

2:30 PM-4:20 PM

603

Inequalities in Contemporary Asia: Opportunities and Challenges for Youth Studies
Session Organizers: Steven Sek-yum NGAI and Ngan-Pun NGAI