Author(s)

Weidong Wu

School of Humanities, Jinan University, Zhuhai, China.

Under the background of social transition and globalization, vulnerable youth in China is quite disadvantaged in the public activities. Based on the ecological system perspective, this paper examines the situation of vulnerable youth in Tianjin, one of the five municipalities directly under the Central Government in China, by the qualitative-quantitative mixed method. Findings show that the disadvantage of vulnerable youth is caused by the shortage of economy resource, culture resource and information resource, which the groups can not obtain sufficiently from family system, school system, work system and community system by successful transaction. Some suggestions for social policies and further research are set forth accordingly.

Vulnerable Youth, Ecological System Perspective, China

Wu, W. (2018) Resource Transaction and the Disadvantage of Vulnerable Youth. Chinese Studies, 7, 82-94. doi: 10.4236/chnstd.2018.71008.