"Young People Social Contexts: Engaging Youth and Young Adults" ed. by Patricia Snell Herzog, Katherine K.M. Stavropoulos

This volume investigates young people within their social contexts. The focus is on engaging young people as they transition from youth into young adulthood. Key advantages of this book are its embodiment of interdisciplinarity in gathering research across a range of diverse methods, theories, settings, and countries.

The volume begins with reviews of key theories and methods in understanding young people within their social networked contexts of generosity, networks, identity, and ethnic heritage. The second section includes chapters attending to education and work as contexts for transitions to adulthood, counseling, meaning, and aesthetics from high school to college and into workplaces. The third section includes chapters studying community engagement and the well-being of young people, including social support, meaning in life, religiosity, spirituality, stress coping, yoga, and sports. The diverse topics addressed in this edited volume are generosity, philanthropy, voluntary action, social networks, social identity, personhood, ethnic heritage, post-colonialism, intersectionality, personality, lived experiences, informal economy, sustainability, pandemic, family support, educational counselors, motivation, ?Not in Education, Employment, or Training? (NEET), everyday aesthetics, built environment, generativity, community, adult allies, youth engagement, life satisfaction, spiritual identity, religious affiliation, stress, practicing yoga, sexual violence, athletes, sports climate, pressures to perform, resilience, and neurodiversity. Disciplines span economics, business, education, sociology, psychology, medical science, geography, journalism, architecture, engineering, science and technology, and applied sciences. Methods include quantitative surveys, qualitative in-depth interviews, life course biographies, ethnographic case studies, bibliometric analysis, and integrative reviews. Young people are investigated across thirteen countries, including the United States, United Kingdom, Yemen, Ghana, Bahrain, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Iceland, Canada, Romania, and the Netherlands.

Contents
1. Bibliometric Applications in Social Science Research: The Social Network Context of Generosity
2. Perspective Chapter: Understanding Young People’s Experiences – An Integrative Literature Review
3. Re-Examining Transitions to Adulthood among Young People Engaged in Informal Businesses in the City of Accra, Ghana
4. Beyond Pressure and Perfectionism – Student Struggles in Contemporary Denmark from the Perspectives of Educational Counsellors
5. Enabling Meaningfulness with Young NEETs in the Nordic Region
6. Everyday Aesthetics and Attractiveness of the University Campus
7. Young Canadians’ Desire to Change the World and the Adults Who Support Them
8. Religiosity, Spirituality, and Well-Being in Emerging Adulthood
9. How Can Social Expectations and Related Stress among Adolescents and Young Adults Be Better Coped with through Practicing Yoga?
10. The Psychology of Resilience: Empowering Athletes with a Potential Risk of Experiencing Sexual Violence in Sports


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