Views Of Youth Research Articles

Grasping ethnic identity fluctuations of transculturally placed foster youth: A longitudinal study

Transcultural placements occur frequently in foster care, and impact the ethnic identity of ethnic minority foster youth. Studies that investigate how foster youth’s ethnic identity develop over time, and what role ethnic minority as well as ethnic majority influences play, are extremely scarce. Therefore, we conducted a longitudinal qualitative study, in which we explored how transculturally placed foster youth develop their ethnic identity and what fluctuations occur over time. Results show that the ethnic identity of foster youth seems to be influenced by a sense of belonging towards foster parents, birth parents and peers, as well as by the foster youth’s ability to cope with receiving contradictory ethnicity messages. Furthermore, societal movements and discussions about discrimination and racism impact the way foster youth view themselves as being an ethnic minority in majority society. In future, more attention should be paid to how foster youth can be guided by foster parents and foster care workers in safely exploring an ethnic identity of their own, and how a positive bond with both foster parents and birth parents, can further contribute to this process.

Getting Help: Findings from Two World Cafés with Youth who Experience Homelessness

Studies indicate that youth who experience homelessness are more likely than their peers to have mental health and substance use concerns. The objective of this study was to investigate youth views of ideal services and service provision environments that facilitate help seeking. Data were collected from two World Café events in Canada where youth (n=14) were asked to discuss their experiences with housing, mental health and addictions services. The discussions were captured visually by a graphic recorder and on paper tablecloths that were drawn and written on by the youth. These visual data, along with field notes prepared by the research team, were analyzed. The findings indicated that barriers to help seeking included stigma, institutional distrust and fear, negative relationships, and the lack of self-awareness. Facilitators included positive therapeutic relationships, services with the capacity to offer care, and non-judgmental environments. Youth wanted services that provide peer support, allow them to participate more in their care decisions, and use self-directed healing strategies. Service providers and policymakers should offer programming that facilitates youth access. They should consider the barriers that youth experience and seek to construct interventions for youth that are judgement free, confidential, and actively engage youth in their own care.

Pediatric Provider Perspectives on Laws and Policies Impacting Sports Participation for Transgender Youth.

Purpose: Since May 2021, numerous state legislatures in the United States have introduced bills to restrict the participation of transgender and gender diverse (trans) youth in gender-segregated sports in a manner consistent with their gender identity. The purpose of this study was to understand how medical providers of pediatric gender-affirming care for trans youth view these legislative efforts and how they believe these bills will affect their practice and patients. Methods: In March 2021, we recruited participants using listservs known to be frequented by providers of gender-affirming medical care to complete a survey about bills that restrict trans youths' participation in sex-segregated sports. Eligible participants were over the age of 18, currently worked as a physician, nurse practitioner, or physician's assistant, and provided gender-affirming care to trans youth under the age of 18 in the United States. Results: We analyzed the responses of 103 providers from all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Most participants identified as White (77%), cisgender women (70%), and specialized in pediatric care (52%). The most salient theme, described by nearly all participants, was that legislation banning trans youth from sports participation would lead to worsening discrimination and stigmatization. Other themes included worsening mental and physical health of trans youth, forced changes to clinical practice, politicization of trans youth, and efforts required to stop these bills. Conclusions: Providers of gender-affirming care in this study overwhelmingly opposed legislation that bans trans youth from sports participation citing the severe consequences to the well-being of trans youth. More research is needed to examine stakeholder's opinions regarding legislation that does not ban but otherwise restricts sports participation by trans youth.

Youth Aspirations and Experiences

Globally, nations are still dealing with numerous challenges in higher education that include access, participation, equity and relevance. Despite efforts made to improve access, Malawi still struggles to provide higher education to its growing youth population. Up to 60% of eligible university candidates may not be accepted due to limited infrastructure and facilities, while less than 1% of Malawi's qualified cohort get enrolled in some form of tertiary education. As a result, this study explores alternative higher education programmes offered in Malawi. Efforts are being made to enhance youth access to higher education, and yet there is limited knowledge on whether these alternative higher educational programmes meet the youth's aspirations. The study uses a qualitative case study based on the views of youth from a selected NGO. The study examines the youth's unique experiences of alternative education programmes to determine how these initiatives prepare them to live meaningful lives that they have a reason to value, aspire towards and enhance their wellbeing. The study addresses the need for studies in higher education in Malawi and employs the capabilities approach framework in a country that concentrates on basic education. It envisages contributing to policy formulation, practice and evaluation to meet youth aspirations and aid their capability formation and enhancement. The study also aims to contribute to refining the capabilities approach scholarship within the higher education landscape.

Alasan Pemuda Memilih Bekerja Sebagai Petani (Studi Kasus Pada Lulusan SMK di Nagari Sungai Nanam)

This research was motivated by the residents of Nagari Sungai Nanam whose livelihoods are mostly as farmers, ranging from young people, adults to old people who work as farmers. The purpose of this study was to find out how the situation of providing formal and non-formal education in Nagari Sungai Nanam, Solok Regency, and to find out the views of youth in Nagari Sungai Nanam about work/livelihoods. This research uses qualitative research with a case study approach. According to Creswell (2010), the uniqueness of qualitative research in its definition is that research is carried out in natural settings, the researcher is positioned as a data collection instrument, and inductive analysis is interpreted based on the participant's perspective. Sources of data in this study were youth who graduated from SMK in Nagari Sungai Nanam as research subjects, while the informants were people who provided information about the research being carried out, namely, parents and other members of the family in Nagari Sungai Nanam. Data collection techniques using observation, interviews and documentation. And the validity of the data obtained from this study was obtained by triangulation of sources.

Youth Views on Race

In this article, we consider how youth ages 14 to 24 years from diverse backgrounds understand and experience race. Through an analysis of open-ended survey questions collected as part of the national MyVoice Project, we explore youths’ views on the role race plays in their own lives and contemporary society more broadly. Our results highlight clear patterns by race/ethnicity linked to commonly held racial stereotypes that affect youth in distinct ways, but also a broadly shared desire to take action to address racism and racial injustice.

The Millennial Generational Style: New Global Political and Economic Orientations

In this paper, using Mannheim, I identify Millennials (covering both Gen Y and Gen Z) as a global generation that has spawned a new generational style. I provide a brief overview of the historical conditions that have shaped Millennials’ life experiences. In a nutshell, Millennials have come of age in a new world marked by an ongoing shift in actorhood from macro structures to micro agents. I argue that this formative experience has impelled at least three meaningful norms that distinguish Millennials’ generational style: self-reliance, quotidianism and regeneration. I then trace manifestations of these norms in politics and the economy. I suggest that in politics, the push for self-reliance takes the form of a self-responsible citizen, quotidianism is manifested through a shift towards politics of the ordinary, and regeneration is embodied in Do-it-Yourself (DIY) politics. In economics , on the other hand, the self-reliant actorhood is reflected through the new occupational profile of the ‘maker’, quotidianism is expressed through non-traditional types of work monetizing individuality and personality, and finally regeneration takes the form of critical making. I conclude with implications for social theory on youth and change. The paper attempts to move beyond the dichotomous view of youth either as threats or as heroic figures and propose a broader conceptualization of young adult’s agency to capture how ordinary youth create new centers of configuration in society, from new citizenship norms to new market patterns.

Школьники и студенты в участвующем проектировании городской среды: опыт Курской области

The article focuses on participatory design of the urban environment— a topic that is currently highly relevant to urban studies—from the point of view of schoolchildren and youth. The methodological foundation of the study included the ideas of foreign and Russian authors in the field of urban sociology, the architecture of urban spaces and comprehensive childhood studies (R. Park, V. Glazychev, A. Filipova, R. Hart and others). To gather research data, a study was conducted among Kursk school and university students in November 2020, using qualitative methods. The conversations focused on the main initiatives of the Kursk region government in the area of creating a comfortable urban environment. The level of participation of children and young people in the implementation of these initiatives was assessed based on their opinions expressed during the focus group, informal interviews, etc. Projects related to society, culture, environment, branding and graffiti had the greatest resonance. An overwhelming number of study participants expressed a desire and willingness to participate in the design of the urban environment. School and university students can do so within the framework of existing legislation. Barriers to initiative implementation and potential measures to overcome those were also identified. The results of the study support the feasibility and legitimacy of involving children and young people in the discussion and implementation of urban improvement projects, as well as the educational potential of these activities in the framework of university career guidance and education.

Factors related to compliance with the COVID-19 health regulations among young people.

The coronavirus pandemic has affected all facets of our lives and all ages and social strata worldwide. Measures have been taken to protect against the spread of the virus, such as more rigorous hand hygiene, the use of face masks and social distancing. However, the focus has often been on young people, who have been seen as a group lacking sufficient respect for government-imposed measures. This review outlines the preventive measures that have been taken in different countries and discusses their specific impact on young people and adolescents, taking into account the developmental stage and concrete needs of this age group. It summarizes those studies that have provided information on compliance with preventive measures by young people and adolescents, concluding that although compliance levels among this age group are lower than among older adults, the general view of youths as non-compliant is not consistent with real, objective data. The review also summarizes different views regarding the possible reasons for this lower level of compliance, taking into account both social (gender and age) and personal factors (personality, empathy, prosociality, self-control, cognitive styles and motivations), and discusses the practical implications of these findings for the future.

THE ROLE OF YOUTH IN THE FORMATION OF THE HUMAN CAPITAL OF THE CITY

The article presents the author's view of youth as a socio-demographic group that performs very important functions in society. Thus, the retention of young people in the urban community ensures the social continuity of the territorial settlement, as well as adaptability, readiness for change. The author substantiates his position, drawing on the works of P. Bourdieu and G. Becker, V.V. Radaev. The author presents the characteristics of youth as resources of not only a social group, but also the human capital of the entire urban settlement.

(Not) minding the gap: A qualitative interview study of how social class bias can influence youth mentoring relationships.

This study sought to examine how social class bias may be enacted by mentors and mentoring program staff within community-based youth mentoring relationships and how these biases may influence the mentoring relationship. A narrative thematic analysis was conducted with interviews from mentors, mentees' parents/caregivers, and mentoring program staff representing 36 matches participating in a larger, prospective, mixed-methods study examining factors associated with early match closures. Findings indicate that although some mentors were able to partner with the youth and family to effectively navigate challenges related to the family's economic circumstances, other mentors and some mentoring program staff held deficit views of the youth and their family that appeared to be at least partially rooted in negative social class-based assumptions about attitudes and behaviors. Specifically, we observed tendencies on the part of some mentors and program staff toward (a) deficit-based views of families and youth, (b) individual-level attributions for the family's economic circumstances and blaming of caregivers, and (c) perceiving mentors as being underappreciated by the youth's caregiver. These deficit perspectives contributed to the minimization of parent/caregiver voice in the mentoring process and negative interpretations of parent/caregiver and, in some cases, youth attitudes and behaviors.

The Embers of Memory

ABSTRACT This article, for which the focus is an intellectual autobiography, examines the development of worldview of a young person who graduated from the Moscow University Faculty of Philosophy in 1970. It highlights the main socially significant events of those times, events that determined the formation of the sociopolitical views of youth who did not accept Soviet ideology. It presents the reading circles and interactions of that period and tells of the outstanding Russian philosophers of the 1960s–1970s under whose influence this professional development took place. It considers the main topics of the key scholarship in philosophy, as well as the dynamics of research interests and problems. Particular attention is paid to the story of the originality of work by the Moscow Methodological Circle, led by Georgy P. Shchedrovitsky. The circle’s main task was to put all acts of reasoning and mental operations—naming, defining, describing, building ontological models and theoretical constructions, and so forth—under reflexive control. This was, to some extent, reminiscent of the inquiries of Western analytical philosophy, which made it a “suspicious” activity in the ideological sense in the Soviet Union. Cognition as a whole no longer seemed a “reflection” of reality, as had been proclaimed in the leading epistemological understanding of Marxist–Leninist philosophy. However, this also reflected the desire of intellectuals of the sixties and seventies to rationalize all social life as a whole. These dreams of “rationality” manifested at the time in the development of relevant topics in disciplines such as epistemology, in philosophy and methodology of science, and in sociological and psychological research. The author tells how the discussions of methodological problems of historical reconstruction began from positions like these. The discussion of discourse on knowledge in the humanities required not only intellectual audacity but social audacity as well. These discussions took place in informal, home-based seminars and represented a marginal, “clandestine” phenomenon.

The Interpretation of Chinese Youth’s Values Orientation in Post Epidemic Era Based on Buzzwords in Prototype Category Theory

The buzzwords born in the post-2020 epidemic era reflect the changes in the values of Chinese youths. However, little empirical research has been conducted to understand why people use buzzwords and changes of values of Chinese youths. Adopting the uses and gratifications theory and prototype category theory by means of regression analysis was employed to analyze the data collected from 112 undergraduate and graduate students in China Three Gorgeous University. The results reveal that socializing needs were the strongest motivation in predicting the usage intention of buzzwords. Applying the method of continuous comparison to analyze the data, the study found that the political, international, social, and moral views of Chinese youths have possessed more inclusive international value and more integrated social value in the post-epidemic era. This study has certain enlightenment to the value orientation of contemporary college students.

Corruption: A Youth View of the Problem

In the presented article, the author sets a goal to look at corruption through the prism of a youth perspective; to identify the existing attitude to the concept, causes and measures to combat corruption. The methodological basis of the study is the analysis of statistical data for 2020, taken from official sources; conducting an in-house survey among students of one of the universities of the Vladimir region and analyzing the results obtained. As a result, the author came to the conclusion that a special role in the formation of the younger generation's understanding of the essence of corruption is played by the mass media and the Internet; a sufficiently large number of young people interviewed are ready to resolve it in a difficult life situation with the help of corruption ties, if this is the last possible means; the most effective measure to counter corruption is tougher responsibility, and the most effective punishment is deprivation of the right to hold a certain position or engage in a certain activity.

Poglądy i opinie młodzieży akademickiej na temat znaczenia emisji głosu w pracy pedagoga

The article deals with the issue of the importance of voice production in the work of a teacher. Incompetent voice use is one of the main factors causing disorders of the voice organ. The aim of this study is to draw attention to the issues related to voice production, presented in the context of the opinions and views of academic youth representing pedagogical fields. The text focuses on direct and indirect factors causing voice problems, disease symptoms that may appear in people working with voice, conscious work on voice projection and elements of correct speech techniques that may affect the quality of classes.

11.4 BELIEFS AND BEHAVIORS OF TRANSITIONAL-AGED MUSLIM YOUTH IN COVID-19

For Muslim communities across the globe, the impact of COVID-19 has been multifaceted: from initial social isolation policies that changed how Muslims prayed, to anticipating and experiencing Ramadan without community. Transitional-aged Muslims, in particular, have experienced layered challenges in the aftermath of COVID-19. The objectives of this presentation are to help participants be able to: 1) understand the unique needs of transitional-aged Muslims in the COVID-19 era; 2) develop an appreciation for the religious coping mechanisms used by transitional-aged Muslim youth; 3) explain how the religious views of Muslim youth directly impact levels of depression and anxiety; and 4) demonstrate an understanding of the impact that a religious framework plays in the treatment of a faith-based group such as Muslim youth.

Equity for People of Color With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

Equity for People of Color With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

Towards an Integrated Theology of Youth

Abstract This article summarises eight theological perspectives on youth and young people. Young people are variously seen as (1) sinful creatures in need of redemption; (2) gifts of God and sources of joy; (3) developing beings in need of guidance and instruction; (4) open to conversion; (5) vulnerable to exploitation; (6) fully human, made in God’s image; (7) a prophetic presence; and (8) a prophetic voice. Rather than simply affirm all 8 perspectives as important, an integrated theological perspective on youth views young people within the distinctive features of their created reality, with particular strengths and assets along with distinct needs and deficits, to be fully capable as bearers of the divine image, and with emerging capability as social agents.

Diverse Applications of Sociological Imagination: A Qualitative Study of Service-Learning Mentoring

This project expands discussions regarding critical ways that students’ diverse backgrounds and experiences intertwine with service-learning and social justice. Educators need to empower the next generation to explore their views, apply their skills, and engage with social issues. The research intersects with complex conversations about students’ perspectives regarding media representations, justice system responses, and views of at-risk youth. The project spanned four semesters of a sociology of media and crime course with service-learning mentoring. Qualitative reflection data drawn from 104 participating student mentors provided insights into how service-learners’ unique personal histories and sociological imaginations inform their views of youth, the mentoring experience, and social justice. The findings focus attention upon diversity within classrooms and expand the conversation about social justice praxis and service-learning pedagogy. Through reflexivity, the researchers consider their own social justice and service-learning practices, and add to the call for greater reflexivity within community-engaged sociology classrooms.

Стратегические коммуникации: коориентационный подход в российских и американских вузах

This study focuses on two countries that often dominate international public diplomacy, and examines how Russian and American youth view the current relationship between Russia and the United States. The article promotes research on the theory of co-orientation and proves that coordination can be one of the theoretical foundations in the field of strategic communication. The study first identifies the main issues affecting the relations between the two countries. Then, using the survey methodology, data on these questions is collected from respondents from the United States and Russia. Four main scenarios of co-orientation are considered : monolithic consensus, pluralistic disregard, false consensus, and disagreement. The results of the study show that the type of coordination scenario that best characterizes the relationship between the United States and Russia is disagreement. The results also highlight the status of strategic communication as an interdisciplinary science with the psychological roots of coorientation theory.