Constructing Social Reality: Self Portraits of Poor Black Adolescents

ISBN-13: 9781138420410 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 246 str.

Loretta Brunious

Opis

This book examines how black children who grow up in an impoverished environment construct their social reality, and why this process is a particulary critical factor in their perception and creation of self. It argues that black disadvantaged children develop a lifestyle and adopt values based on an identity grounded in racism, inequality, violence and poverty. "Constructing Social Relaity: Self Portraits of poor Black Adolescents" makes a valuable contribution to the scholarship by investigating the phenomena of poverty from cognitive, linguistic, and experiential persepctives in the lives of disadvantaged black adolescents.

Spis treści

Tables and Illustrations Foreword Acknowledgements 1. Introduction 2. The Course of Construction 3. Primary Socialization and Construction of Reality 4. Listen: Do You Hear What I Hear? 5. Showdown: Impact of Mass Media and Popular Culture 6. Reality Is Socially Constructed! The Causal Network Pilot Study Wolf's Artwork References Index

O autorze

Loretta Brunious