Youth in a Changing Karelia

Puuronen, Vesa; Sinisalo, Pentti; Shvets, Larissa

• Contents: Introduction: Living in Karelia - the changing life contexts of adolescents. The Everyday Life of Young People: The everyday life of young people in Karelia in the mid-1990s; Health and health behaviour of Karelian and Finnish young people. Adolescents’ Values and Identity Development in Changing Societies: Introduction; Value orientations of Russian and Finnish young people; What is valued in work?; Gender differences in identity development. Constructing a Personal Future: Introduction; The personal future - general aspects of adolescents’ future orientation; Developing occupational goals and plans; Personal future in hopes and fears; My daily life in 2010, Finnish and Russian adolescents’ constructs of their future everyday life. Political Culture of Young People: Introduction; Social values and attitudes of Russian and Finnish youth; The political commitment and knowledge of Russian and Finnish young people; The national prejudices of Russian and Finnish young people. Conclusions: The challenges of cross-cultural research.

’...professionals in the field will find much of interest...for students curious about young people in this corner of the world, this is clearly good reading...’ Slavic Review