RC34 Sociology of Youth

Program Coordinators:

Ilaria PITTI, University of Bologna, Department of Sociology and Business Law, Italy, ilaria.pitti2@unibo.it

Dan WOODMAN, University of Melbourne, Australia, dan.woodman@unimelb.edu.au

Airi-Alina ALLASTE, Tallinn University, Estonia, airi-alina.allaste@tlu.ee


Sessions:


A Global Youth Studies? Centering the Global In Youth Studies Scholarship

Affective Infrastructures of Hallyu: Platformized Intimacy, Emotional Universalism, and the Recomposition of Collective Life

Around the World on the Social Media “Ban Wagon”: Rhetoric, Realities and Resistance

Bridges over Rubble: Youth and Intercultural Dialogue In Times of Conflict

Children’s Free Time In Turbulent Times a Global Comparison of Holidays, Leisure and Inequality

Generation Z In the Workplace: Between Educational Aspirations, the Uncertainty of Adulthood and Developmental Challenges

Getting Ahead? New Perspectives on Class and Social Mobility for Young People

Global Challenges and the Future Prospects of Youth In the Global South: Youth Experiences In South Asia

Identity and Dynamics Among Multi-Racial and Multi-Ethnic Youth

Juvenicide and the Politics of Youth Killings: Violence, Repression and Resistance

K-Pop, Afrobeats, Hustling Waithood, and the N-Po Generation: Youth Cultures As Theory from the South

Learning to Labour In the 21st Century: Critical Perspectives on Vocational Education

Life Skills and Wellbeing of Children and Youth In Digital World: Learning to Live Together In Interconnected World

Life Under AI: Governing the Ageing and the Young

Manufactured Dreams: Youth, Consumer Culture and Making of Aspirations

Marginalized Youth In Times of Democratic Backsliding: Wellbeing and Participation Among Lgbtqi+, Refugee, Migrant and Disabled Youth

Participation and Agency of Children and Youth In Times of Crises

Political Socialization of Younger Generations: Participation, Beliefs, Attitudes and Knowledge.

President's Session - Youth Studies In East Asia

Racialised Youth In the City: Everyday Racism, Misrecognition, and Counter-Narratives

Research As a Space of Youth Citizenship: Exploring the Potentials and Limits of Co-Production

Sexual Capital, the Sexual Field, and Youth Stratification: Toward a Cross-Cultural Sociology

South Korea's Digital Sociology In (or without) a Comparative Perspective

Speaking through Crisis: Youth Languages In Turbulent Times

Unequal Recoveries, Unequal Futures: Youth, Social Inequality, and the Life Course of Disaster

Whose Futures? Why Youth Studies Scholars Study “Futures” and What That Means for a Global Sociology of Youth

Working While Studying: Global Perspectives on Youth Work, Inequalities, and the Reconfiguration of Work and Life

Young People and (Good) Citizenship at Critical Juncture(s)

Youth Agency and Transitions to Adulthood In Turbulent Times - 1

Youth Culture In Turbulent Times: Affective Mobilization, the Algorithmic Self, and Precarious Belongings

Youth In the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Navigating New Challenges and Transformations

Youth Solidarities: Contemporary Understandings of Solidarity In Turbulent Times

Youth and Artificial Intelligence: Employment, Inequalities, and Emerging Labor Experiences

Youth on the Move: Mobility, Digital Mediation, and Individualized Life Courses