Keywords:
Youth with social disabilities Case studies Psychology
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Urban youth Case studies Psychology
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After-school programs
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Interpersonal relations Case studies
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Identity (Psychology) in adolescence Case studies
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Identity (Psychology) in adolescence-United States-Case studies
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Urban youth-United States-Psychology-Case studies
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Youth with social disabilities-United States-Psychology-Case studies
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Interpersonal relations-United States-Case studies
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After-school programs-United States
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Youth with social disabilities - United States - Psychology
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Electronic books
Description / Table of Contents:
Teens in America's inner cities grow up and construct identities amidst a landscape of relationships and violence, support and discrimination, games and gangs. In such contexts, local environments such as after-school programs may help youth to mediate between social stereotypes and daily experience, or provide space for them to consider themselves as contributing members of a community. Based on four years of field work with both the adolescent members and staff of an inner-city youth organization in a large Midwestern city, Pride in the Projects examines the construction of identity as it oc
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
Online-Ressource (viii, 279 p)
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ill
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24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0814719929
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9780814719923
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9780814719916
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0814719910
Series Statement:
Qualitative studies in psychology
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https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=865976
DDC:
155.5/1825
Language:
English
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-270) and index
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Contents; Acknowledgments; "There Are Birds in the Projects": The Ecology of Adolescent Development in Urban America; "I Give People a Lot of Respect": The Self in Interpersonal Relationships; "I Never Thought Kids Would Look Up to Someone Like Me": Lorenzo's Story; "I Can't Act Ghetto in the Ghetto No More": Self, Society, and Social Categories; "I've Never Seen Any Dark-Skinned Girls in Videos": Nicole's Story; "I Can't Lose to No Girl, Man": The Gendered Self; "Manly, Take Charge, the Head Man, the King": John's Story
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"If I Never Came Here I'd Be Irresponsible, Like a Little Kid": After-School Programs as Sites of Development and Identity ConstructionAppendix A: Methods; Appendix B: The Contextual Identity Interview: Protocol for Interview 1; Appendix C: The Contextual Identity Interview: Protocol for Interview 2; Appendix D: Photography Project; Appendix E: Coding Guidelines for Individuated versus Connected Self-Descriptors; Notes; References; Index; About the Author
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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