Bøker utgitt av TAYLOR & FRANCIS

For five years, Jim Walker followed the stories of four groups of young men, from their last years at an inner-city high school to their early twenties. Louts and Legends is a rich portrayal of their ways of life, their responses to school and teachers, and their experience of job-seeking, employment, unemployment, further education and training.Louts and Legends presents a unique perspective on Australian culture, showing the problems, achievements, and social context of four distinct cultural styles: the macho ''Aussie'' culture of the footballers; the competitive challenge of the Greeks; the ''nice guy'' friendliness of the handballers; the artistic aspirations of the stigmatised three friends.The interview and participant observation data gathered over a long period contains fresh insights on youth culture as well as moving individual stories. The findings in this book pose a challenge to educational and social policy, but they also offer realistic suggestions for teachers, youth workers, parents and for other young people.

Following on from the suuccessful Thinking With Theory in Qualitative Research, this new book by Mazzei and Jackson explores how qualitative inquiry can be truly methodologically innovative through framing research ontologically. Rather than treating concepts as waiting to be extracted from the empirical field, the book experiments with concepts, mapping their ontogenetic and generative properties, and showing that they can be generative of new realities a fundamental shift from worldviews to different worldings.

The Impact of Culture.