Sheds new light on the processes of socialization on today's youth.

Part I. Youth-Constructed Socialization: 1. Risks, rules, and roles: youth perspective on the work of learning for community development Shirley Brice Heath; 2. Youth between integration and disaffiliation in French cities Laurence Roulleau-Berger; 3. A new industry, a new lifestyle Karsten Hundeide; 4. Becoming a member by following the rules Alain Coulon; Part II. Personal Agency through Collective Activity: 5. Learning and thinking in adolescence and youth: how to inhabit new provinces of meaning Felice Carugati; 6. From the provinces of meaning to the capital of a good self: some reflections on learning and thinking in the process of growing adult in society John Rijsman; 7. Preapprenticeship: a transitional space Tania Zittoun; Part III. Learning in Practice and Discourse: 8. From learning lessons to living knowledge: instructional discourse and life experiences of youth in complex society Roger Säljö; 9. Practice and discourse as the intersection of individual and social in human development Jonathan Tudge; 10. Talking matters: using interdependencies of individual and collective action in youthful learning David Middleton; 11. Young people's use of information and communication technologies: the role of sociocultural abilities Jacques Perriault; Part IV. Intergenerational Sites for Thinking: 12. Thinking with others: the social dimension of learning in families and schools Clotilde Pontecorvo; 13. The role of discourse in the transformation of parent-adolescent relationships Manfred Hofer; 14. Interactive minds: a paradigm from lifespan psychology Ursula M. Staudinger; 15. Thinking 'youth', thinking 'school': social representations and field work in educational research Claude Albert Kaiser; Part V. Pathways to Adulthood in national Context: 16. Joining society in Europe: convergence or sustainability of national specificities Annie Fouquet; 17. The school-to-work transition: problems and indicators Paul Ryan; 18. To be young in Yugoslavia: living after a social Chernobyl Dragan Popadic; 19. Youth and unions in North America's service society Stuart Tannock; 20. Joining society: with what certainty? Saul Menghnagi.