Problems of Youth : Transition to Adulthood in a Changing World

ISBN-13: 9780202362885 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 352 str.

Muzafer Sherif; Carolyn Sherif

Opis

This book describes and analyzes, from an interdisciplinary point of view, those problems of youth that are currently objects of remedial action on both community and national levels. It explores the many causes of adolescent happiness and discontent, behavior and misbehavior, aspirations and aversions in the rapidly changing patterns of contemporary class, institutional, and cultural settings. It provides practical information for all professionals concerned with adolescent problems and aff ords small comfort to any who hopes for quick results.

Spis treści

Introduction; I: The Individual Adolescent, Youth Subcultures and Family; One: Adolescent Attitudes and Goals; Two: Youth Subculture; Three: Family Structure and Youth Attitudes; II: Adolescence in Different Social Settings; Four: The New World View of Negro Youth; Five: Youth in Lower Class Settings; Six: Psychological Acculturation in Modern Maori Youth; Seven: Sociocultural and Psychodynamic Processes in Adolescent Transition and Mental Health; III: Youth in Trouble; Eight: Social Structure and Group Processes in Explanation of Gang Delinquency; Nine: The Structure and Functions of Adult-Youth Systems; Ten: Group Organization Theory and The Adolescent Inpatient Unit; IV: Age-Mate Reference Sets Within Differentiated Neighborhoods; Eleven: Urban Neighborhoods and Individual Behavior; Twelve: The Adolescent in his Group in its Setting I. Theoretical Approach and Methodology Required; Thirteen: The Adolescent in his Group in its Setting

O autorze

Muzafer Sherif