ISBN:
0521615100
,
0521849934
,
9781139141345
,
9780521849937
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xx, 378 p)
,
ill
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
The Jacobs Foundation series on adolescence
Parallel Title:
Print version Ethnicity and Causal Mechanisms
DDC:
305.235089
Keywords:
Ethnicity Psychological aspects
;
Minority teenagers
;
Minority teenagers Research
;
Ethnicity Psychological aspects
;
Minority teenagers
;
Ethnopsychology
;
Statistics
Abstract:
This book explains the role of ethnicity in group differences across social and psychopathological settings
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Foreword; Preface; 1 Natural Experiments, Causal Influences, and Policy Development; Validity of the Association; Noncausal Alternatives; Research Strategies to Test Possible Causal Mechanisms; Application of Migration Designs to Psychological Outcomes; Conclusions; 2 Growing Up Ethnic in the United Kingdom and the United States: Comparative Contexts for Youth Development; Introduction; The Demographic Context: Contemporary United Kingdom and United States; Socioeconomic Differentiation of Minority and Immigrant Youth; Summary and Implications
Description / Table of Contents:
3 The Multiple Facets of EthnicityEthnicity as a Self-Description or Personal Construct; Labeling as a Social Construction; Genetic Influences: Racial Differences in IQ; Genetic Construction of Ethnicity; Possible Mediators of Ethnic Effects; Conclusions; 4 Educational Attainments: Ethnic Differences in the United Kingdom; Introduction; Background; Geographical Location; Educational Attainments: Empirical Evidence; Understanding Ethnic Diversity in Educational Attainments in the United Kingdom; Conclusions; 5 Race and Ethnic Inequality in Educational Attainment in the United States
Description / Table of Contents:
IntroductionTheories of Ethnic Inequality in Educational Attainment; Race and Ethnic Inequality in Educational Attainment; The Survey of High School Seniors in the Pacific Northwest; Description of Race and Ethnic Disparities in Planning for College; Family and Socioeconomic Backgrounds of Students; Multivariate Analysis of College Plans; Does Social Background Have Comparable Effects Across Ethnic Communities?; Conclusions; Acknowledgments; 6 Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Crime and Delinquency in the United States; Sizing Up Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Crime
Description / Table of Contents:
Discrepancies Between Official Records and Self-ReportsPlace-Based Disparities in Crime; Explaining Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Crime; Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods; 7 Explaining Ethnic Variations in Crime and Antisocial Behavior in the United Kingdom; Introduction; Methodological and Conceptual Issues; Explaining Intergenerational Changes; Conclusion; 8 Cultural Differences in the Effects of Physical Punishment; Introduction; Physical Discipline and Abuse; Ethnic Group Differences; Children's Interpretations of Parenting; Policy Implications; Conclusions
Description / Table of Contents:
AcknowledgmentsAuthor Note; 9 Ethnicity and Mental Health: The Example of Schizophrenia in the African-Caribbean Population in Europe; Introduction; What Is Schizophrenia?; Who Gets Schizophrenia?; Where in the World Does Schizophrenia Occur?; Is Schizophrenia Really More Common in the UK African-Caribbean Population?; Is This Phenomenon Confined to Migrants to the United Kingdom?; Is the Rate of Schizophrenia Raised in the Country of Origin?; Is the Increased Incidence Confined to Schizophrenia Among the Psychoses, and to African-Caribbean Migrants as Opposed to Groups with Other Origins?
Description / Table of Contents:
New Evidence from Nottingham
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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