ABSTRACT
Youth Studies in Canada and the United States is a rather inchoate enterprise with few networks within which to exchange ideas. For example, the American Sociology Association does not have a Youth Studies or Sociology of Youth section. Instead, it has a Child & Youth section which focuses on ‘infancy to the legal majority’ (http: //www.asanet.org/sections/children.html; accessed Aug. 5, 2003). The journal Youth and Society stands as the only North American journal with ‘youth’ as its ostensible focus, but it now targets studies (of interest to American society) on teen pregnancy, gangs, AIDS education, adolescent substance abuse, and sexual harassment, with special interest in gay and lesbian youth, and youth and resistance. However, this journal does not carry a critical mass of researchers from a Society focused on youth issues. The Canadian Society of Sociology and Anthropology has nothing close to a Youth Studies section, and its journal the Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology rarely publishes anything of interest to youth researchers.
