Understanding Youth Participation Across Europe: From Survey To Ethnography
by Hilary Pilkington /
2017 / English / PDF
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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.
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.
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
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.
will be of
interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines,
including Sociology, Political Sociology, Youth Studies and
Political and Civic Participation.
