To mark this milestone, this series of extracts or summaries reflects on aspects of youth policy and youth work practice over the past 25 years as featured in the 100th issue.
"Hiding Out in the Open": Young People and Social Class in UK Youth Studies
Tracey Shildrick
Processes of individualisation have helped to obscure the continued significance of class for young people's lives in a context where young lives have become more complicated and diverse for all. Whilst the concept might have lost some of its explanatory appeal, or become more difficult to define, it remains, nonetheless, omnipresent.
Furthermore, class processes are neither impartial nor fair. By their very nature they are unfair and unjust, fostering for some advantages and opportunities whilst for others hardship, scarcity and misfortune.
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