ISBN:
9780814784891
,
0814784895
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (320 pages)
Series Statement:
Qualitative Studies in Psychology
DDC:
305.235/0973/091732
Keywords:
Urban youth Case studies
;
Urban youth Longitudinal studies
;
Teenagers with social disabilities Case studies
;
Teenagers with social disabilities Longitudinal studies
;
Adolescence
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Urban youth
;
Urban youth
;
Teenagers with social disabilities
;
Teenagers with social disabilities
;
Adolescence
;
Teenagers with social disabilities
;
Urban youth
;
Child & Youth Development
;
Social Welfare & Social Work
;
Social Sciences
;
United States
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Sociology ; Urban
;
Case studies
;
Longitudinal studies
;
Adolescence
;
Electronic books
;
Case studies
;
Longitudinal studies
Abstract:
What does it mean to be a teenager in an American city at the close of the twentieth century? How do urban surroundings affect the ways in which teens grow up, and what do their stories tell us about human development? In particular, how do the negative images of themselves on television and in the newspaper affect their perspectives about themselves? Psychologists typically have shown little interest in urban youth, preferring instead to generalize about adolescent development from studies of their middle-class, suburban counterparts. In Everyday Courage Niobe Way, a developmental psychologis
Abstract:
What does it mean to be a teenager in an American city at the close of the twentieth century? How do urban surroundings affect the ways in which teens grow up, and what do their stories tell us about human development? In particular, how do the negative images of themselves on television and in the newspaper affect their perspectives about themselves? Psychologists typically have shown little interest in urban youth, preferring instead to generalize about adolescent development from studies of their middle-class, suburban counterparts. In Everyday Courage Niobe Way, a developmental psychologis
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-302) and index
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