Sociological Studies of Children and Youth

Buch | Hardcover

340 Seiten

2001
JAI Press Inc. (Verlag)
978-0-7623-0051-8 (ISBN)

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The volumes in this series illustrate how social organization and private, emotional experience are different phases of the social process. They show the steps by which emotional experience is shaped by social structural, macro-level processes and how these processes are changed by experience.

Volume 8 of Sociological Studies of Children and Youth includes chapters that focus on issues of race, gender and public policy as they relate to children and youth. This volume includes empirical and theoretical works from a variety of perspectives. The chapters are divided into the following sections: (1) Children, Race, and Social Institutions; (2) Youth and Gender; (3) Youth, Theory, and Methods; (4) Urban Youth and Identity; and (5) Policy, Politics and Theory. Specific chapters address the following important topics; the impact of teachers' expectations on parents and children; how children from different racial backgrounds interact with each other and adults in a public service agency; children's racial self-classification; female and male athletes in high school; romantic relationships among adolescents; new skills to learn in peer groups; white youth's racial apathy; urban youth and academic identity; violence among youth growing up in a large city; and theory and public policy as they relate to children.

EDITORIAL BOARD.
Introduction.
“Without the parent you lose the child”: Teachers' expectations and parents' (non-)involvement.
Interracial relationships and racial identity processes in an urban mother-and-child rehabilitation program.
The colors of the rainbow: Children's racial self-classification.
The social world of male and female athletes in high school.
On the nature and developmental significance of adolescent romantic relationships.
New skills to learn in peer groups.
Social determinants of white youths' racial attitudes: Evidence from a national survey.
Between a “soft” and a “hard” place: Gender identity in the schooling and job behaviors of low-income minority youth.
Violent events and social identity: Specifying the relationship between respect and masculinity in inner-city youth violence.
“Troublemakers,” “average kids,” and “better-behaved youth”: The politics of labeling in social service delivery.
Young citizens: The position of children in communitarian theory.
About the Authors.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	22.6.2001
Reihe/Serie	Sociological Studies of Children and Youth
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	653 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-7623-0051-5 / 0762300515
ISBN-13	978-0-7623-0051-8 / 9780762300518
Zustand	Neuware