The orthodoxies framing contemporary analysis of youth in industrialised democracies are outlined in Threadgold and Nilan’s rationalisation as more complex and fragmented in nature than that of generations before (Threadgold & Nilan, 2009, p. 51). Threadgold and Nilan’s empirical research targets two key areas in their survey: – engagements with popular culture and attitudes towards the future are in line with findings that youth are negotiating future risks constituted by privileged cultural capital (Threadgold & Nilan, 2009, p. 48), all while preserving class as an embedded sociological concept. The arguments made by Threadgold and Nilan support the proposition that reflexivity is mediated through the habitus which remains class-based, encapsulated
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When mapping and staging future pathways, youth from more privileged upbringings incorporated reflexive ideas, including that their future direction was self-managed to excel in life. Threadgold and Nilan research documents responsive levels of entitlement for disadvantaged youth measurable in material objectives with risks modelled by experiences of the people who surround them in their local environment ‘young people look forward to an adult life of choices, but not all of them have the means to be choosers’ (Threadgold & Nilan, 2009, p. 65) and such behaviours are learned as a result of identified obstacles. Overall, reflexivity does not negate the importance for social class, but reflexivity as cultural capital deployed in habitus operates differentially for negotiation of future risks made according to changing …show more content…
Overarching twenty-first century youth research have concepts grounded in empirical analyses of choice and agency as these are important and valued in the majority of young people’s lives. The interaction and interconnectedness of individuals and their community and the social fabric premising of reflexivity, habitus, cultural capital, autonomy and independence is what constitutes society. If we address the concept of youth only to a one-dimensional empirical reality without including observations to various underlying silent sequence of events, we are undeniably ignoring a key sociological resource ‘the sociological imagination’ and therefore a range of important commodities and social outcomes based on general
When mapping and staging future pathways, youth from more privileged upbringings incorporated reflexive ideas, including that their future direction was self-managed to excel in life. Threadgold and Nilan research documents responsive levels of entitlement for disadvantaged youth measurable in material objectives with risks modelled by experiences of the people who surround them in their local environment ‘young people look forward to an adult life of choices, but not all of them have the means to be choosers’ (Threadgold & Nilan, 2009, p. 65) and such behaviours are learned as a result of identified obstacles. Overall, reflexivity does not negate the importance for social class, but reflexivity as cultural capital deployed in habitus operates differentially for negotiation of future risks made according to changing …show more content…
Overarching twenty-first century youth research have concepts grounded in empirical analyses of choice and agency as these are important and valued in the majority of young people’s lives. The interaction and interconnectedness of individuals and their community and the social fabric premising of reflexivity, habitus, cultural capital, autonomy and independence is what constitutes society. If we address the concept of youth only to a one-dimensional empirical reality without including observations to various underlying silent sequence of events, we are undeniably ignoring a key sociological resource ‘the sociological imagination’ and therefore a range of important commodities and social outcomes based on general