Understanding Youth Participation Across Europe: From Survey to Ethnography 1st Edition – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9781137590060,9781137590077,1137590068,1137590076

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• ISBN-10: 1137590076
• ISBN-13: 9781137590077
• Author: Hilary Pilkington, Gary Pollock, Renata Franc

This edited volume presents findings from a major cross-European research project mapping the civic and political engagement of young Europeans in the context of both shared and diverse political heritages. Drawing on new survey, interview and ethnographic data, the authors discuss substantive issues relating to young people’s attitudes and activism including: attitudes to the European Union and to history; understanding of political ideologies; how attitudes to democracy are shaped by political heritage; activism in radical right wing groups and religion-based organisations; and digital activism. These contributions make the book’s case that transnational and multi-method projects can enrich our understanding of how young people envisage their place and role in Europe’s political and civic space. The book challenges methodological assumptions that survey research shows the big picture but at the cost of local nuance or that qualitative research cannot speak beyond the individual case, and demonstrates the added explanatory value of triangulating different kinds of data. Understanding Youth Participation Across Europe will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines, including Sociology, Political Sociology, Youth Studies and Political and Civic Participation.

Table contents:

I. Introduction: Thinking Globally, Understanding Locally

1. Context-Sensitive Survey Research

2. Survey Research and Sensitivity to Context: The MYPLACE Project and Its Case Study Approach

3. Beyond ‘Left’ and ‘Right’? The Role of Culture and Context in Young People’s Understanding of Ideology

4. Attitudes Towards the EU Among Young People in Eastern Germany, Greece, and the UK: Embedding Survey Data Within Socio-Historical Context

II. Beyond Comparison? Transnational Qualitative Research

5. Can Qualitative Data Speak Beyond the Individual Case? Employing Meta-Ethnography for the Synthesis of Findings in Transnational Research Projects

6. ‘One Big Family’: Emotion, Affect and Solidarity in Young People’s Activism in Radical Right and Patriotic Movements

7. Believing in Participation: Youth, Religion and Civic Engagement

8. Young People’s Attitudes to, and Practices of, Political Participation on the Internet: What Can We Learn from Large-Scale Qualitative Research?

III. Triangulation in Practice

9. Introduction to Triangulating Data

10. Youth, History and a Crisis of Democracy? Perspectives from Croatia

11. Does History Matter for Young People’s Political Identity? The Role of Past Authoritarianism in Germany and Spain

12. History in Danger and Youth Civic Engagement: Perceptions and Practice in Telavi, Georgia

13. Conclusion: What is the ‘Value Added’ of Multi-method, Transnational Research?

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