Dan Woodman
Biographic Data
| ID | 245269 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dan Woodman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dan |
| FAMILY NAME | Woodman |
| SIGNATURE | WOODMAN D |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Melbourne |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2893-5222 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 43 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 493 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 41 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Keynote papers from the 4th Journal of Youth Studies International Conference , University of Ulster 2024
It gives us great pleasure to present this collection of five papers. Each was presented as a keynote lecture at the 4th Journal of Youth Studies International Conference at the University of Ulste...
Everyday emotions and the sociology of youth
Youth research often leans on emotional registers to conceptualise young people’s experiences, framing stress, uncertainty, transgression, inequality or bullying as key sites of emotional intensity. Emotional categories are also used to characterise whole cohorts, with labels such as the precariat, the narcissistic or anxious generation. These framings can show how young people navigate and shape rapidly changing social conditions. At the same ti…
Considering qualitative data analysis and researcher reflexivity in team-based longitudinal research projects
Qualitative longitudinal research (QLR) has grown in popularity in recent years. In this article, we consider how qualitative longitudinal researchers work with data in the context of team-based studies, drawing on our own experience working together as part of a larger team on a QLR project. We focus particularly on the concept of reflexivity, arguing that while it has been central to much methodological writing on QLR, it has seemingly less inf…
How does providing financial and practical support to young adult children impact upon their parents’ present-day lives and future plans
Family financial support of young adults has occupied growing scholarly attention over recent years yet remains disconnected from literature addressing the intensification of parenting, which focuses primarily on children. In this article we seek to connect these bodies of literature in order to consider how providing financial and practical support to young adult children affects their parents’ lives and future plans. We present the findings of …
Paradoxical Parenting Practices and Australian Higher Education
While there is now a large literature on 'intensive parenting' practices, the majority of studies have focused on young children, rather than those in their early adulthood. This article draws on interviews with 30 Australian parents to explore parenting practices as they pertain to higher education. It argues that although parents tended to stress the importance of children achieving independence during their degree programmes, in other ways, th…
Socius improvisus: Young musicians, DIY careers and uncertainty in Indonesia
Who is receiving financial transfers from family during young adulthood in Australia
Parents are increasingly providing financial support to their adult children. At the same time, it is often taking young people into their 30s to convert educational credentials into career outcomes, establish independent households, and marry or form partnerships. While the role of the so-called 'bank of mum and dad' in assisting with entry into home ownership is well established, its effects are potentially far wider, for example affecting youn…
Youth Beyond the City: Thinking from the Margins
Youth Beyond the City: Thinking from the Margins
The purpose of this book is to situate the place beyond the city as an epistemological vantage point for researching youth. Existing frameworks about young people privilege large urban centres or ‘global cities’ and create forms of marginality that are at once spatial and epistemological. This book interrogates and moves beyond these boundaries, turning the margins into a unique position for understanding youth and examining forms of difference w…
Dimensions of the asset economy
No Time for a 'Time Out'? Managing Time around (Non)Drinking
Young people's drinking represents a nexus between time, temporalities and social practices. While drinking and intoxication have previously been considered a way to achieve a youthful sense of 'time out', young people's drinking is declining in Australia and other high-income countries, suggesting alcohol's centrality in young people's leisure time has diminished. Drawing on interviews with light and non-drinker teenagers from Melbourne, Austral…
Generation Solidarity? The young (and old) Australians who are rejecting age-related stereotypes
Generation has become one of the major lenses we use to understand the big issues and challenges of our time, from housing and employment to climate change and the impact of the pandemic. It’s common to read about narcissistic millennials, and more recently about selfish baby boomers, and increasingly anxious, tech-distracted Generation Zs. Often these labels register societal anxieties about social change and are levelled at younger people
This is Sociology: A Short Introduction
Beyond millennials v baby boomers: Using kindness to assess generationalism across four age cohorts in Australia
Today's young people (youth and young adults) are routinely understood in generational terms, constructed as narcissistic and selfish in comparison with their predecessors. Despite announcements of a weakening commitment to values of kindness and generosity, there is little empirical research that examines these trends. The Australian Survey of Social Attitudes shows that young people are more likely to be kind but are less likely to think most A…
Youth and the New Adulthood: Generations of Change
Generational change and intergenerational relationships in the context of the asset economy
The study of youth is central to efforts to understanding continuity and change and the reproduction of inequality. There are longstanding debates about how to account for class in shaping young people's lives in the context of social change, including recent calls for a greater focus on political economy in the sociological study of youth. This article considers these debates in the context of the rise of the asset economy, developing a generati…
Inequality, continuity and change: Andy Furlong's legacy for youth studies
This article introduces a special issue of the Journal of Youth Studies, dedicated to Professor Andy Furlong, the Journal's founding Editor. The central questions that drove Andy Furlong's scholarship were the relationship between continuity and change in young people's lives and about the place of youth in the reproduction of inequality across generations. These questions have been central to the wider field of Youth Studies that he helped to bu…
Belonging and the Self as Enterprise: Place, Relationships and the Formation of Occupation-Based Identities
Research considering young adults' experiences of place is characterised by two focal points: the relationship between place, education and employment; and immaterial aspects of place such as experiences of belonging and relationality. Previous research has worked across these focal points considering, for instance, how symbolic and immaterial factors and social ties can inform mobility choices and experiences. We extend this work by drawing on l…
The New Adulthood and the Future of Youth Studies: An Interview with Professor Johanna Wyn
In this article, Johanna Wyn discusses her pivotal contributions to youth studies, in conversation with Dan Woodman. Professor Wyn’s key ideas are introduced: the critique of futurity in youth studies, the rise of a new adulthood , social generation , the limitations of a transitions framework, and belonging for young people. These conceptual contributions are discussed in relation to understanding patterns of inequality among young people and th…
Young adulthood in uncertain times: The association between sense of personal control and employment, education, personal relationships and health
Young adults in Australia, and in many other advanced countries, are more likely to be highly educated but less likely to be in full-time employment than their parents were. Although insecure employment has long been a feature of labour markets, increased labour flexibility in recent decades has resulted in insecure employment becoming entrenched. In this article, we draw on data from young people in their early twenties to examine the interrelat…
The new gendered labour of synchronisation: Temporal labour in the new world of work
Research considering how time is organised has shown that women tend to carry a disproportionate burden of coordinating the schedules of their households. However, little research has considered how these gendered inequalities may manifest in the context of the shift away from 'standard' work patterns and towards variable and non-standard hours. We address this question by using interview and digital data to consider how a selection of 'ordinary'…
Gendered transitions from education to work: The mysterious relationship between the fields of education and work
This article addresses the paradox that, despite achieving educational participation exceeding their male peers, young women see fewer returns for this investment in the labour market. We argue that this paradox is obscured by youth transitions frameworks that assume a close, linear relationship between education and work. We draw on Bourdieu's concept of field to highlight the distinctive logics (particularly the 'time economy') that shape diffe…
The Complex Relationship between Mental Health and Social Conditions in the Lives of Young Australians Mixing Work and Study
Poor mental health in youth has been consistently shown to be rising over the past 20 years. While it is well established that mental health status is associated with social conditions, population-level perspectives make it difficult to identify the complex ways social and structural conditions impact on mental health. Based on longitudinal (mixed method) data, this exploratory longitudinal study aims to study how the life circumstances of educat…
Youth cultures, transitions, and generations: Bridging the gap in youth research
"Within the diversity of contemporary youth research there are two dominant streams that can be categorized under the broad headings of 'transitions' and 'cultures' perspectives. This collection sets forth a challenge to youth studies, with the contributors arguing that social change means it is no longer possible to understand the experience of young people through this transitions/cultures prism. The future of youth studies, it is argued, will …
Youth and Generation: Rethinking Change and Inequality in the Lives of Young People
A thought provoking and engaging exploration of contemporary youth studuies, with a focus on change and inequality in young lives in the emerging Asian century
Generation, Youth and Social Change in Australia
This article takes recent critiques of the conceptualisation of 'youth as transition' and explores the extent to which 'generation' offers a more effective way of conceptualising youth. There is an identifiable convergence of evidence for a 'post-1970' generation who have shaped a 'new adulthood'. Yet current approaches inevitably identify education, work and family patterns of young people's lives as evidence of their faulty, failed transitions,…
The mysterious case of the pervasive choice biography: Ulrich Beck, structure/agency, and the middling state of theory in the sociology of youth
This paper explores the emergence of the concept of choice biography, as it is linked to the work of Ulrich Beck, in youth research. The concept has been called a current pervasive theoretical orthodoxy. However, this article argues that the concept is most often taken up to critique, and Beck used mostly as a foil, through arguing that he overemphasizes agency and neglects structural constraints, in establishing or occupying a middle-ground theo…
Young People and the Future: Multiple Temporal Orientations Shaped in Interaction with Significant Others
Young people’s temporal orientation is now a major focus of youth studies. A central research question in this area is whether or not young people treat their futures as ‘choice biographies’ to be planned as a personal project. In this article I suggest that this focus has emerged in part from a misreading of contemporary sociological theory and I attempt to widen the focus of inquiry. Drawing on a qualitative interview with 50 young people in Au…
Changing times, changing perspectives: Reconciling 'transition' and 'cultural' perspectives on youth and young adulthood
This article explores the changing relationship between the 'transitions' and 'cultural' perspectives in youth studies. Changes in the relationship between the two approaches are currently being driven by shifting theoretical paradigms that place a greater weight on reflexive life management, thereby making it more difficult to maintain a theoretical distinction between structural and cultural analysis. Indeed, we argue that relationships between…
Class, individualisation and tracing processes of inequality in a changing world: A reply to Steven Roberts
This article replies to Steven Roberts' recent critique of my article on the concept of choice biography and how youth studies have engaged with the work of Ulrich Beck. I use this rejoinder to extend my argument about why Beck's ideas matter for youth studies. I suggest that both those who find the concept of choice biography useful and those who critique Beck need to rethink their position. I argue that the model of individualisation built by B…
Ultimate concerns in late modernity: Archer, Bourdieu and reflexivity
Through a critique of Margaret Archer's theory of reflexivity, this paper explores the theoretical contribution of a Bourdieusian sociology of the subject for understanding social change. Archer's theory of reflexivity holds that conscious 'internal conversations' are the motor of society, central both to human subjectivity and to the 'reflexive imperative' of late modernity. This is established through critiques of Bourdieu, who is held to erase…
Class, gender and generation matter: Using the concept of social generation to study inequality and social change
This article highlights how concepts from the sociology of generations can facilitate new understandings of the processes by which social inequalities are made and perpetuated in the lives of young people. There is a tendency in some youth research for inequality to be conceptualised too simplistically, as a process of reproduction that remains stable over time. Hence, continuing inequality is weighed as evidence against theories proposing social…
Life out of Synch: How New Patterns of Further Education and the Rise of Precarious Employment Are Reshaping Young People's Relationships
Young people increasingly mix study with variable hours of employment in a precarious youth labour market. Drawing on interview material from 50 participants (supported by questionnaire data from 1294 participants) from a longitudinal study of the post-secondary school transitions in Australia, this article explores how these patterns of work and study impact on young people's friendships. As the participants left school they moved into new cours…
Object-oriented sociology and organizing in the face of emergency: BrunoLatour,GrahamHarman and the material turn
This paper explores the material turn in sociology and the tools it provides for understanding organizational problems highlighted by theRoyalCommission into the 2009 'BlackSaturday' bushfires during which 173 people died in theAustralianState ofVictoria. Often inspired byBrunoLatour's material-semiotic sociology of associations, organization scholars employing these tools focus on the messy details of organization otherwise overlooked by approac…
Gendered transitions from education to work: The mysterious relationship between the fields of education and work
This article addresses the paradox that, despite achieving educational participation exceeding their male peers, young women see fewer returns for this investment in the labour market. We argue that this paradox is obscured by youth transitions frameworks that assume a close, linear relationship between education and work. We draw on Bourdieu's concept of field to highlight the distinctive logics (particularly the 'time economy') that shape diffe…
Researching Youth in a Context of Social Change: A Reply to Roberts
In our article ‘Generation, Youth and Social Change in Australia’ (Wyn & Woodman 2006), we set out a rationale for considering the issue of young people and social change through the lens of ‘socia
Prophet of a new modernity: Ulrich Beck's legacy for sociology
Ulrich Beck was one of the most influential sociologists of recent decades. Concepts he developed - including risk society, individualization, cosmopolitanization, subpolitics and the democratization of science - are among the most cited, used and contested in contemporary sociology. In the wake of Beck's recent death, this review article revisits his key contributions and legacy. He proposed that a momentous shift to a new modernity has begun an…
Youth Policy and Generations: Why Youth Policy Needs to ‘Rethink Youth’
There is an emerging consensus that new approaches are needed to take account of the impact of social conditions on young people's lives. We argue that an approach informed by the sociology of generations can highlight the interrelationships between changing social context and life patterns. This approach enables policies that aim to enhance the social inclusion of youth at risk to recognise the intersections between individual and social transit…
Inequality, continuity and change: Andy Furlong's legacy for youth studies
This article introduces a special issue of the Journal of Youth Studies, dedicated to Professor Andy Furlong, the Journal's founding Editor. The central questions that drove Andy Furlong's scholarship were the relationship between continuity and change in young people's lives and about the place of youth in the reproduction of inequality across generations. These questions have been central to the wider field of Youth Studies that he helped to bu…
Dimensions of the asset economy
Generational change and intergenerational relationships in the context of the asset economy
The study of youth is central to efforts to understanding continuity and change and the reproduction of inequality. There are longstanding debates about how to account for class in shaping young people's lives in the context of social change, including recent calls for a greater focus on political economy in the sociological study of youth. This article considers these debates in the context of the rise of the asset economy, developing a generati…
Who is receiving financial transfers from family during young adulthood in Australia
Parents are increasingly providing financial support to their adult children. At the same time, it is often taking young people into their 30s to convert educational credentials into career outcomes, establish independent households, and marry or form partnerships. While the role of the so-called 'bank of mum and dad' in assisting with entry into home ownership is well established, its effects are potentially far wider, for example affecting youn…
Researching 'Ordinary' Young People in a Changing World: The Sociology of Generations and the 'Missing Middle' in Youth Research
Several researchers have pointed to an overemphasis on 'spectacular' elements of youth culture and on 'at-risk' young people, arguing for greater attention to the 'ordinary' in sociological youth research. This article draws upon the Life Patterns Project, a 20-year longitudinal study of transitions in Australia, to argue that both understanding the 'ordinary' experience of youth and contemporary patterns of inequality between young people can be…
Young adulthood in uncertain times: The association between sense of personal control and employment, education, personal relationships and health
Young adults in Australia, and in many other advanced countries, are more likely to be highly educated but less likely to be in full-time employment than their parents were. Although insecure employment has long been a feature of labour markets, increased labour flexibility in recent decades has resulted in insecure employment becoming entrenched. In this article, we draw on data from young people in their early twenties to examine the interrelat…
The new gendered labour of synchronisation: Temporal labour in the new world of work
Research considering how time is organised has shown that women tend to carry a disproportionate burden of coordinating the schedules of their households. However, little research has considered how these gendered inequalities may manifest in the context of the shift away from 'standard' work patterns and towards variable and non-standard hours. We address this question by using interview and digital data to consider how a selection of 'ordinary'…
The Complex Relationship between Mental Health and Social Conditions in the Lives of Young Australians Mixing Work and Study
Poor mental health in youth has been consistently shown to be rising over the past 20 years. While it is well established that mental health status is associated with social conditions, population-level perspectives make it difficult to identify the complex ways social and structural conditions impact on mental health. Based on longitudinal (mixed method) data, this exploratory longitudinal study aims to study how the life circumstances of educat…
No Time for a 'Time Out'? Managing Time around (Non)Drinking
Young people's drinking represents a nexus between time, temporalities and social practices. While drinking and intoxication have previously been considered a way to achieve a youthful sense of 'time out', young people's drinking is declining in Australia and other high-income countries, suggesting alcohol's centrality in young people's leisure time has diminished. Drawing on interviews with light and non-drinker teenagers from Melbourne, Austral…
Paradoxical Parenting Practices and Australian Higher Education
While there is now a large literature on 'intensive parenting' practices, the majority of studies have focused on young children, rather than those in their early adulthood. This article draws on interviews with 30 Australian parents to explore parenting practices as they pertain to higher education. It argues that although parents tended to stress the importance of children achieving independence during their degree programmes, in other ways, th…
Socius improvisus: Young musicians, DIY careers and uncertainty in Indonesia
Beyond millennials v baby boomers: Using kindness to assess generationalism across four age cohorts in Australia
Today's young people (youth and young adults) are routinely understood in generational terms, constructed as narcissistic and selfish in comparison with their predecessors. Despite announcements of a weakening commitment to values of kindness and generosity, there is little empirical research that examines these trends. The Australian Survey of Social Attitudes shows that young people are more likely to be kind but are less likely to think most A…
Generation, Youth and Social Change in Australia
This article takes recent critiques of the conceptualisation of 'youth as transition' and explores the extent to which 'generation' offers a more effective way of conceptualising youth. There is an identifiable convergence of evidence for a 'post-1970' generation who have shaped a 'new adulthood'. Yet current approaches inevitably identify education, work and family patterns of young people's lives as evidence of their faulty, failed transitions,…
Researching Youth in a Context of Social Change: A Reply to Roberts
In our article ‘Generation, Youth and Social Change in Australia’ (Wyn & Woodman 2006), we set out a rationale for considering the issue of young people and social change through the lens of ‘socia
The mysterious case of the pervasive choice biography: Ulrich Beck, structure/agency, and the middling state of theory in the sociology of youth
This paper explores the emergence of the concept of choice biography, as it is linked to the work of Ulrich Beck, in youth research. The concept has been called a current pervasive theoretical orthodoxy. However, this article argues that the concept is most often taken up to critique, and Beck used mostly as a foil, through arguing that he overemphasizes agency and neglects structural constraints, in establishing or occupying a middle-ground theo…
Class, individualisation and tracing processes of inequality in a changing world: A reply to Steven Roberts
This article replies to Steven Roberts' recent critique of my article on the concept of choice biography and how youth studies have engaged with the work of Ulrich Beck. I use this rejoinder to extend my argument about why Beck's ideas matter for youth studies. I suggest that both those who find the concept of choice biography useful and those who critique Beck need to rethink their position. I argue that the model of individualisation built by B…
Young People and the Future: Multiple Temporal Orientations Shaped in Interaction with Significant Others
Young people’s temporal orientation is now a major focus of youth studies. A central research question in this area is whether or not young people treat their futures as ‘choice biographies’ to be planned as a personal project. In this article I suggest that this focus has emerged in part from a misreading of contemporary sociological theory and I attempt to widen the focus of inquiry. Drawing on a qualitative interview with 50 young people in Au…
Changing times, changing perspectives: Reconciling 'transition' and 'cultural' perspectives on youth and young adulthood
This article explores the changing relationship between the 'transitions' and 'cultural' perspectives in youth studies. Changes in the relationship between the two approaches are currently being driven by shifting theoretical paradigms that place a greater weight on reflexive life management, thereby making it more difficult to maintain a theoretical distinction between structural and cultural analysis. Indeed, we argue that relationships between…
Youth Studies
Youth Studies: an introduction is a clear, jargon-free and accessible textbook which will be invaluable in helping to explain concepts, theories and trends within youth studies. The concise summaries of key texts and the ideas of important theorists make the book an invaluable resource. The book also raises questions for discussion, with international case studies and up-to-date examples. The book discusses important issues within youth studies, …
Youth Policy and Generations: Why Youth Policy Needs to ‘Rethink Youth’
There is an emerging consensus that new approaches are needed to take account of the impact of social conditions on young people's lives. We argue that an approach informed by the sociology of generations can highlight the interrelationships between changing social context and life patterns. This approach enables policies that aim to enhance the social inclusion of youth at risk to recognise the intersections between individual and social transit…
Object-oriented sociology and organizing in the face of emergency: BrunoLatour,GrahamHarman and the material turn
This paper explores the material turn in sociology and the tools it provides for understanding organizational problems highlighted by theRoyalCommission into the 2009 'BlackSaturday' bushfires during which 173 people died in theAustralianState ofVictoria. Often inspired byBrunoLatour's material-semiotic sociology of associations, organization scholars employing these tools focus on the messy details of organization otherwise overlooked by approac…
Life out of Synch: How New Patterns of Further Education and the Rise of Precarious Employment Are Reshaping Young People's Relationships
Young people increasingly mix study with variable hours of employment in a precarious youth labour market. Drawing on interview material from 50 participants (supported by questionnaire data from 1294 participants) from a longitudinal study of the post-secondary school transitions in Australia, this article explores how these patterns of work and study impact on young people's friendships. As the participants left school they moved into new cours…
Flexible employment, flexible eating and health risks
Over the last 30 years, the risks to public health from working conditions have subtly shifted in line with new economic regimes, notably the shift towards contractualist, individualised market driven and ‘flexible’ regulation of employment associated with the neo-liberal project. Yet, the resulting transformation in temporal schedules has occurred without due consideration of potential health impacts. We contend that contemporary employment poli…
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Researching 'Ordinary' Young People in a Changing World: The Sociology of Generations and the 'Missing Middle' in Youth Research
Several researchers have pointed to an overemphasis on 'spectacular' elements of youth culture and on 'at-risk' young people, arguing for greater attention to the 'ordinary' in sociological youth research. This article draws upon the Life Patterns Project, a 20-year longitudinal study of transitions in Australia, to argue that both understanding the 'ordinary' experience of youth and contemporary patterns of inequality between young people can be…
Contemporary contestations over working time: Time for health to weigh in
The study posits that time is a key mechanism through which particular forms of labour market policies impact health. The labour market flexibility agenda appears to be operating as a time re-distributive device: it has supported the removal of regulations that governed 'the when' of working time and removed limits over the amount of working time, thus extending by many hours the notion of the 'standard' working week and forcing employees to adap…
Youth cultures, transitions, and generations: Bridging the gap in youth research
"Within the diversity of contemporary youth research there are two dominant streams that can be categorized under the broad headings of 'transitions' and 'cultures' perspectives. This collection sets forth a challenge to youth studies, with the contributors arguing that social change means it is no longer possible to understand the experience of young people through this transitions/cultures prism. The future of youth studies, it is argued, will …
Youth and Generation: Rethinking Change and Inequality in the Lives of Young People
A thought provoking and engaging exploration of contemporary youth studuies, with a focus on change and inequality in young lives in the emerging Asian century
Youth Cultures, Transitions, and Generations
Within contemporary youth research there are two dominant streams - a 'transitions' and a 'cultures' perspective. This collection shows that it is no longer possible to understand the experience of yo
Class, gender and generation matter: Using the concept of social generation to study inequality and social change
This article highlights how concepts from the sociology of generations can facilitate new understandings of the processes by which social inequalities are made and perpetuated in the lives of young people. There is a tendency in some youth research for inequality to be conceptualised too simplistically, as a process of reproduction that remains stable over time. Hence, continuing inequality is weighed as evidence against theories proposing social…
Ultimate concerns in late modernity: Archer, Bourdieu and reflexivity
Through a critique of Margaret Archer's theory of reflexivity, this paper explores the theoretical contribution of a Bourdieusian sociology of the subject for understanding social change. Archer's theory of reflexivity holds that conscious 'internal conversations' are the motor of society, central both to human subjectivity and to the 'reflexive imperative' of late modernity. This is established through critiques of Bourdieu, who is held to erase…
Prophet of a new modernity: Ulrich Beck's legacy for sociology
Ulrich Beck was one of the most influential sociologists of recent decades. Concepts he developed - including risk society, individualization, cosmopolitanization, subpolitics and the democratization of science - are among the most cited, used and contested in contemporary sociology. In the wake of Beck's recent death, this review article revisits his key contributions and legacy. He proposed that a momentous shift to a new modernity has begun an…
The Complex Relationship between Mental Health and Social Conditions in the Lives of Young Australians Mixing Work and Study
Poor mental health in youth has been consistently shown to be rising over the past 20 years. While it is well established that mental health status is associated with social conditions, population-level perspectives make it difficult to identify the complex ways social and structural conditions impact on mental health. Based on longitudinal (mixed method) data, this exploratory longitudinal study aims to study how the life circumstances of educat…
Gendered transitions from education to work: The mysterious relationship between the fields of education and work
This article addresses the paradox that, despite achieving educational participation exceeding their male peers, young women see fewer returns for this investment in the labour market. We argue that this paradox is obscured by youth transitions frameworks that assume a close, linear relationship between education and work. We draw on Bourdieu's concept of field to highlight the distinctive logics (particularly the 'time economy') that shape diffe…
The New Adulthood and the Future of Youth Studies: An Interview with Professor Johanna Wyn
In this article, Johanna Wyn discusses her pivotal contributions to youth studies, in conversation with Dan Woodman. Professor Wyn’s key ideas are introduced: the critique of futurity in youth studies, the rise of a new adulthood , social generation , the limitations of a transitions framework, and belonging for young people. These conceptual contributions are discussed in relation to understanding patterns of inequality among young people and th…
Young adulthood in uncertain times: The association between sense of personal control and employment, education, personal relationships and health
Young adults in Australia, and in many other advanced countries, are more likely to be highly educated but less likely to be in full-time employment than their parents were. Although insecure employment has long been a feature of labour markets, increased labour flexibility in recent decades has resulted in insecure employment becoming entrenched. In this article, we draw on data from young people in their early twenties to examine the interrelat…
The new gendered labour of synchronisation: Temporal labour in the new world of work
Research considering how time is organised has shown that women tend to carry a disproportionate burden of coordinating the schedules of their households. However, little research has considered how these gendered inequalities may manifest in the context of the shift away from 'standard' work patterns and towards variable and non-standard hours. We address this question by using interview and digital data to consider how a selection of 'ordinary'…
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