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CONSOLIDATING AN INDUSTRY AND PROLONGING DEPENDENCY: PROFESSIONALS, POLICIES AND YOUNG PEOPLE
Author(s) -
Bessant Judith
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
australian journal of social issues
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.417
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1839-4655
pISSN - 0157-6321
DOI - 10.1002/j.1839-4655.1995.tb00943.x
Subject(s) - argument (complex analysis) , nexus (standard) , youth work , project commissioning , work (physics) , psychological intervention , young person , representation (politics) , sociology , publishing , young adult , public relations , political science , psychology , medicine , gerontology , politics , developmental psychology , law , engineering , psychiatry , mechanical engineering , embedded system
This article examines the nexus between professionalism and the representation of social problems among some young people. It considers how policy and professional interventions involve problem‐setting as well as problem‐solving activities. A central argument is that a primary effect of both professional activities and of major changes to the youth labour market has been an extension of dependency for many young people. No matter how young people experience the disappearance of the youth labour market, the fact remains: most young people have been permanently excluded from full‐time work. As we reach the close of the twentieth century and without essentialising ‘youth’ it seems that more and more young people are unable to live autonomous lives that resemble adulthood until their mid‐twenties. For some young people staying on in education, remaining out of the full‐time labour market until their mid‐twenties may not mark a dramatic shift in their experiences, but for other young people such trends have a dramatic impact on their life‐worlds.