Glossary
- Affects
- The term affects refers to the way social and political processes are physically experienced.
- Human geography
- A branch of geography that focuses on the interrelationships between people, places and environments.
- NEET
- A young person who is Not in Education, Employment or Training.
- Psychosocial approach
- A psychosocial approach combines the methods and insights of psychology, psycho-analysis and sociology.
- Queer
- Queer theory and queer perspectives are derived from questioning the critical role of gender, sexuality and desire in society.
- Russell Group
- The Russell Group is a collection of 24 universities in the UK that pride themselves on the quality of their research and training.
- Social mobility
- A sociological term describing the movement of individuals and groups between social classes or other types of social stratification. Upward social mobility or the opportunity to move from a lower to a higher class is a common policy goal for governments in Western democracies.
- Sub-cultural studies
- An academic discipline that studies particular groups of people in modern societies. The groups are often composed of young people.
- Teenager
- Someone between the ages of 13 and 19.