This book uses the youth life stage as a window through which to view all domains of life in present-day Saudi Arabia: family life, education, the impact of new media, the labour market, religion and politics. The authors draw extensively on their interviews with 25-35 year olds, selected so as to represent the life chances of males and females who grow up in different socio-economic strata, and typically face different futures. The book presents an account of the ways in which family life, education, religion, employment and the housing regimes interlock, and how and why this interlocking is subject to increasing stresses. The chapters, which are built on documentary research, official published statistics and the authors' original evidence, provide invaluable insights into Saudi youth, which has never before been examined in such depth.

Youth in Saudi Arabia will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines including Sociology, Politics and Middle East Studies.

Offers a rare insight into the lives of Saudi young people Provides an account of the ways in which family life, education, religion, employment and housing regimes inter-lock Makes comparisons with Western youth and related Western literature

Autorentext

Talha Fadak is Associate Professor of Sociology at Umm Al-Qura University, Mecca, Saudi Arabia. Ken Roberts is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Liverpool, UK.

Klappentext

This book uses the youth life stage as a window through which to view all domains of life in present-day Saudi Arabia: family life, education, the impact of new media, the labour market, religion and politics. The authors draw extensively on their interviews with 25-35 year olds, selected so as to represent the life chances of males and females who grow up in different socio-economic strata, and typically face different futures. The book presents an account of the ways in which family life, education, religion, employment and the housing regimes interlock, and how and why this interlocking is subject to increasing stresses. The chapters, which are built on documentary research, official published statistics and the authors' original evidence, provide invaluable insights into Saudi youth, which has never before been examined in such depth. Youth in Saudi Arabia will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines including Sociology, Politics and Middle East Studies.

Inhalt

1. Saudi Arabia.- 2. Youth.- 3. Free time: online and offline.- 4. Education.- 5. Employment.- 6. Marriage and family transitions.- 7. Housing.- 8. Looking forward.