Kategoria BISAC: Family & Relationships >> Life Stages - Adolescence

Saint Somebody is a true story about a young girl's quest to become a saint. It is a poignant and humorous account of the author's attempt to be considered one of God's favorite people. Believing that she has been on the receiving end of two miracles, Teresa awaited miracle number three. Although unique in detail, this story bears a strong similarity to what many people experience in their search for a relationship with God. In a lighthearted and sometimes laugh-out-loud manner, the story demonstrates the impact that family dynamics have upon individual spiritual development.

The Subcultural Imagination examines young adults in subcultures, and how sociologists use qualitative research methods to study them. It applies the ideas of C. Wright Mills to the development of theory-reflexive ethnography. Looking at the experiences of young people in different subcultural settings, this book shows how young people in subcultures interact in the wider context of society, biography and history.

The concept of everyday struggles can enliven our understanding of the lives of young people and how social class is made and remade. This book invokes a Bourdieusian spirit to think about the ways young people are pushed and pulled by the normative demands directed at them from an early age, whilst they reflexively understand that allegedly available incentives for making the 'right' choices and working hard - financial and familial security, social status and job satisfaction - are a declining prospect.

In Youth, Class and Everyday Struggles, the figures of those...

A new cohort of Muslim youth has arisen since the attacks of 9/11, facilitated by the proliferation of recent communication technologies and the Internet. By focusing on these young people as a heterogeneous global cohort, the contributors to this volume who draw from a variety of disciplines show how the study of Muslim youth at this particular historical juncture is relevant to thinking about the anthropology of youth, the anthropology of Islamic and Muslim societies, and the post-9/11 world more generally. These scholars focus on young Muslims in a variety of settings in Asia, Africa,...

The daughter of a hardworking sharecropper in Arkansas, Loretta longed for something better. Determined to escape poverty, she left the farm to live with relatives in Little Rock two days after graduating from high school. Within a year she headed west and began her new life in Los Angeles.

This is not your typical, "we were poor, but never knew it" account of one who grew up happy though penniless during the Great Depression. Far from it, Loretta reveals, "I despised my life of painful embarrassing poverty." Her anthology of personal stories demonstrates a deep desire to improve...

The daughter of a hardworking sharecropper in Arkansas, Loretta longed for something better. Determined to escape poverty, she left the farm to live with relatives in Little Rock two days after graduating from high school. Within a year she headed west and began her new life in Los Angeles.

This is not your typical, "we were poor, but never knew it" account of one who grew up happy though penniless during the Great Depression. Far from it, Loretta reveals, "I despised my life of painful embarrassing poverty." Her anthology of personal stories demonstrates a deep desire to improve...

Many readers are thrilled to immerse themselves in the tales of years gone by, concerning deeds they wished they could have done, but never did. When living in frigid Alaska, we submerged ourselves in almost any adventure that presented itself. The wild Arctic Alaska with its colder temps, thicker and more prevalent 'ice-fog', considerably larger moose, huge schools of lively salmon and seemingly unending miles of spacious tundra elicits a symphony of crisp adventures, unparalleled in any other state. They were presented to us on a platter. We didn't shy away. We attempted them with a near...