scholarly journals The social historical roots of the concept of emerging adulthood and its impact on early adults

2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 18-35
Author(s):  
Gowri Parameswaran
Keyword(s):  
Emerging Adulthood ◽  
Narrow Range ◽  
Life Stage ◽  
Living Standards ◽  
Social Spending ◽  
Biological Condition ◽  
The Social ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
Social Uncertainty

Adults between the ages of 18 and 25 live in an era of economic and social uncertainty. Outsourcing, automation, and decreased governmental social spending have led to lowered living standards for youth; they frequently change jobs, are more likely to live with other people and have few benefits attached to their employment thereby prohibiting them from thinking about their long-term goals. The bio-psychological sciences have responded by offering a new life stage that they call emerging adulthood (EA). The new characterization disempowers youth and naturalizes their new uncertainties as a biological condition. This article argues that the stage offers little new insight about the experiences of youth and limits individual empowerment. In addition, such a conceptualization of youth is indicative of the narrow range of possibilities for adulthood in a post-industrial world that offers few pathways to get there.

scholarly journals Long-term ill health and the social embeddedness of work: a study in a post-industrial, multi-ethnic locality in the UK

2014 ◽  
Vol 36 (7) ◽  
pp. 955-969 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kaveri Qureshi ◽  
Sarah Salway ◽  
Punita Chowbey ◽  
Lucinda Platt
Keyword(s):  
Social Embeddedness ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Post Industrial

scholarly journals New spatialities of work in the city

Urban Studies ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 004209802110091
Author(s):  
Darja Reuschke ◽  
Carol Ekinsmyth
Keyword(s):  
Job Quality ◽  
Industrial Restructuring ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Urban Structure ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Social Fabric ◽  
The Social ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
The City

This introduction discusses the objectives and concepts underlying the Special Issue on the new spatialities of work in the city. It highlights the urban impact of both the changing spatiotemporal working patterns and the increased diversity of workspaces that have resulted from post-industrial restructuring, globalisation, labour market flexibilisation and digitisation. Even pre-COVID-19, when the research in this Special Issue was undertaken, this impact on the urban structure and the social fabric of cities was significant, but it had remained underexplored. Here, therefore, we question models of work and commuting that continue to assume the spatially ‘fixed’ workplace, and explore how new understandings of workspace and multi-locality, developed in this Special Issue, can inform future research. This, we argue, is more important than ever as we come to understand the medium- and long-term impacts of pandemic-altered work practices in cities. We further argue that the spatialities of work need to be connected with research on health, job quality and wellbeing in cities – such as, for example, on the risks that COVID-19 has exposed for driving and mobile work.

Staying alive? Navigating Uncertainty in Cancer in Childhood

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (26) ◽  
Author(s):  
Pia Løvschal-Nielsen ◽  
Rikke Sand Andersen ◽  
Lotte Meinert
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Cancer Treatment ◽  
Paediatric Oncology ◽  
Social Effects ◽  
Treatment Practices ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
The Social ◽  
American Pragmatist ◽  
Social Uncertainty

Abstract In this article we explore how institutions and individuals in Denmark deal with uncertainty of cancer in childhood. Based on a seven months ethnographic fieldwork conducted on a paediatric oncology ward from 2011-2013, we examine how uncertainty and insecurities manifest in the interface between cancer treatment and childhood in the Danish welfare state. We develop our argument theoretically with the American pragmatist philosophy and its ideas that people are responding to a hazardous world in constant transformation. Through a focus on micro practices we explore how uncertainty manifests especially for children and their families, and how they navigate insecurities. Important collective attempts to create some measure of certainty and security are done in treatment practices, but we argue that biomedical practices dealing with uncertainty of cancer paradoxically give rise to existential and social uncertainty among children and their families, which they struggle with, also after the end of cancer treatment, as long-term social effects of cancer in childhood. We suggest that more attention could be paid to assist children in dealing with uncertainty and insecurities imminent to being in cancer treatment in the Danish welfare state and the social effects of this.

scholarly journals “Buy or Rent”: What Do Metropolitan Youth Choose

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 97-105
Author(s):  
O. A. Aleksandrova ◽  
E. I. Borkovskaya
Keyword(s):  
Staff Development ◽  
Young People ◽  
Financial Literacy ◽  
Rental Housing ◽  
Mortgage Lending ◽  
Social Spending ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
Intractable Problem

In the framework of financial literacy research, young people look like a not-too-responsible subject, prone to irrational consumption and not having the habit of long-term financial planning . However, the social context in which the burden of social spending is increasingly shifted onto the shoulders of the citizens, requires from them financial discipline, knowledge of financial instruments, and rational decisions . The article analyses the behaviour of metropolitan youth in the housing market . We showed that in the long term, the majority of young people are focused on the purchase of their own homes . It is due to the reluctance in the presence of the family to depend on the landlord and direct their funds into the “other people’s pocket”, as well as the perception of their housing as an asset . Satisfying modest requests of respondents is impossible without seeking financial assistance . A little more than half of the respondents see a bank as a lender, and more than a third of respondents see relatives or friends as a lender . Nearly half of the participants in the mass survey directly or indirectly faced mortgage lending; in most cases this experience was “rather positive” . As an alternative solution to the housing problem, young people see rent, the main advantage of which is increased mobility . Rent is not excluded and in the presence of own housing, which in this case will be rented . Despite their generally optimistic attitude, about half of the respondents believe that today housing is an intractable problem for young people . According to respondents, the state could help young people by implementing such measures as monitoring the reasonableness of pricing; subsidising mortgage interest or allocating quotas for young families and scarce staff; development of rental housing; increase of scholarships and promotion of employment for graduates so that young people start forming savings as early as possible; effective regional development policy allowing to unload the capital.

Area-based Responses to Educational Disadvantage

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kirstin Kerr ◽  
Alan Dyson
Keyword(s):  
Economic Disadvantage ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Large Cities ◽  
Educational Disadvantage ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Face ◽  
Additional Support ◽  
New Generation ◽  
Post Industrial

Countries across the world struggle to break the relationship between socio-economic disadvantage and educational outcomes. Even in otherwise affluent countries, children and young people from poor and marginalized families tend to do badly in education, and their lack of educational success makes it more likely that they will remain in poverty as adults. Moreover, socio-economic disadvantage and educational failure in these countries tend to be concentrated in particular places, such as the poor neighborhoods of large cities or of post-industrial towns. This has led policy-makers and practitioners in many administrations to favor area-based initiatives (ABIs), which target such places, as one set of responses to social and educational disadvantage. Some ABIs are limited to funding schools more generously in disadvantaged areas or giving them additional support and flexibilities. The more ambitious initiatives, however, seek to develop multistrand interventions to tackle both the educational and the social and economic problems of areas simultaneously. The evaluation evidence suggests that these initiatives have so far met with limited success at best. This has led some critics to conclude that there is a fundamental contradiction in their use of purely local interventions to tackle problems that originate outside ABIs’ target areas, in macro-level social and economic processes. However, it is possible to construct a convincing rationale for these initiatives by understanding the social ecologies that shape children’s outcomes, and by formulating holistic interventions aimed at reducing the risks in those ecologies and enhancing children’s resilience in the face of those risks. There is, moreover, evidence of a new generation of ABIs that has begun to emerge recently. These new ABIs are able to operate strategically and over the long-term, rather than being bound by the short-term nature of policy-making. These newer initiatives may offer a better prospect of tackling the link between social and educational disadvantage, even in unpromising economic circumstances, and even within the context of “politics as usual.”

Putting ‘the social’ back into social policy

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steve Corbett ◽  
Alan Walker
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Education ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
Education System ◽  
Living Standards ◽  
British Society ◽  
The Social ◽  
Meaning And Purpose ◽  
The Uk

This chapter illustrates how the dominant neoliberal approach to economic and social policy in the UK is becoming increasingly fragmented with a generation of people set to experience worse living standards than their parents. This includes a decline in social mobility within and across generations, a vast chasm emerging between the haves and have nots, a long term squeeze on wages and living standards, health crises relating to underfunding, and the move towards a mechanical learning based secondary education system geared towards a low wage, low skill economy. As a result, it is important to reassess the meaning and purpose of social policy and where it fits within the overall direction of contemporary British society.

scholarly journals Staying alive? Dealing with the Uncertainty of Childhood Cancer

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (27) ◽  
Author(s):  
Pia Løvschal-Nielsen ◽  
Rikke Sand Andersen ◽  
Lotte Meinert
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Cancer Treatment ◽  
Paediatric Oncology ◽  
Clinical Uncertainty ◽  
The Social ◽  
American Pragmatist ◽  
Social Uncertainty ◽  
Cancer In Children ◽  
Existential Uncertainty

This article explores how institutions and individuals in Denmark deal with the uncertainty of cancer in children. Based on a seven months ethnographic fieldwork conducted on a paediatric oncology ward during the period 2011-2013, the article examines how uncertainty manifests itself in the interface between cancer treatment and institutional childhood in the Danish welfare state. The argument is based on American pragmatist philosophy and its ideas about how people respond to a hazardous world in constant transformation. Through a focus on practices, the article explores how clinical and existential uncertainty arises for children and their families, and how they deal with this by navigating their way round the more tangible forms of insecurities. Important collective attempts to circumscribe clinical uncertainty are part of this navigation, but the article argues that epidemiologically based practices of dealing with the clinical uncertainty of cancer paradoxically gives rise to existential and social uncertainty for the affected children and their families, which they struggle with during treatment and even as long-term social effects into adolescence and young adulthood. The article suggests that more attention should be paid to assist children to manage the social and existential uncertainty that emerges in the interface between being a child in cancer treatment and being a child in the Danish welfare state.

Conditions for the Hi-tech Complex Development

2003 ◽  
pp. 26-39
Author(s):  
V. Maevsky ◽  
B. Kuzyk
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Central Bank ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
Monetary Base ◽  
Complex Development ◽  
Bank System ◽  
Post Industrial

A project for the long-term strategy of Russian break-through into post-industrial society is suggested which is directed at transformation of the hi-tech complex into the leading factor of economic development. The thesis is substantiated that there is an opportunity to realize such a strategy in case Russia shifts towards the mechanism of the monetary base growth generally accepted in developed countries: the Central Bank increases the quantity of "strong" money by means of purchasing state securities and allocates the increment of money in question according to budget priorities. At the same time for the realization of the said strategy it is necessary to partially restore savings lost during the hyperinflation period of 1992-1994 and default of 1998 and to secure development of the bank system as well as an increase of the volume of long-term credits on this base.

Economic Development in 2006 and the Future of the Russian Economy: The Non-Resource-Based Sector Potential (The Economic Report of All-Russia Business Union “Delovaya Rossiya”)

2007 ◽  
pp. 27-45
Author(s):  
B. Titov ◽  
I. Pilipenko ◽  
A. Danilov-Danilyan
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Free Market ◽  
Economic Report ◽  
Russian Economy ◽  
The Social ◽  
National Economic ◽  
Investment Capital ◽  
Export Industries ◽  
Sustainable Economic Growth

The report considers how the state economic policy contributes to the national economic development in the midterm perspective. It analyzes main current economic problems of the Russian economy, i.e. low effectiveness of the social system, high dependence on export industries and natural resources, high monopolization and underdeveloped free market, as well as barriers that hinder non-recourse-based business development including high tax burden, skilled labor deficit and lack of investment capital. We propose a social-oriented market economy as the Russian economic model to achieve a sustainable economic growth in the long-term perspective. This model is based on people’s prosperity and therefore expanding domestic demand that stimulates the growth of domestic non-resource-based sector which in turn can accelerate annual GDP growth rates to 10-12%. To realize this model "Delovaya Rossiya" proposes a program that consists of a number of directions and key groups of measures covering priority national projects, tax, fiscal, monetary, innovative-industrial, trade and social policies.

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