Youth Studies and Generations: Values Practices and Discourses on Generations

There is currently much discourse about generations in the public sphere. A sequence of letters conflates generations and age cohorts born in the last few decades (generation X Y or Z) as well as multiple categories are used to describe todays young people as a generation that is distinct from its predecessors. Despite the popularity of generational labels in media politics or even academia the use of generation as a conceptual tool in youth studies has been controversial. This Special Issue allows readers to better understand the key issues regarding the use of generation as a theoretical concept and/or as a social category in the field of youth studies shedding light on the controversies trends and cautions that go through it.