Pride in the projects [[electronic resource] ] : teens building identities in urban contexts / / Nancy L. Deutsch
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| Autore: |
Deutsch Nancy L
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| Titolo: |
Pride in the projects [[electronic resource] ] : teens building identities in urban contexts / / Nancy L. Deutsch
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| Pubblicazione: | New York, : New York University Press, c2008 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (288 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 155.5/1825 |
| Soggetto topico: | Identity (Psychology) in adolescence - United States |
| Urban youth - United States - Psychology | |
| Youth with social disabilities - United States - Psychology | |
| Interpersonal relations - United States | |
| After-school programs - United States | |
| Soggetto non controllato: | Based |
| Pride | |
| Projects | |
| adolescent | |
| both | |
| city | |
| construction | |
| context | |
| emphasizing | |
| examines | |
| field | |
| formed | |
| four | |
| identities | |
| identity | |
| inner-city | |
| large | |
| local | |
| members | |
| mid-western | |
| occurs | |
| organization | |
| relationships | |
| staff | |
| this | |
| which | |
| with | |
| within | |
| work | |
| years | |
| youth | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-270) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | "There are birds in the projects": understanding 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 -- "If I never came here I'd be irresponsible, like a little kid": after-school programs as sites of development and identity construction. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Pride in the projects |
| ISBN: | 0-8147-2036-6 |
| 0-8147-8521-2 | |
| 81-472-0366-7 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 996602571503316 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. di Salerno |
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Serie:
Qualitative studies in psychology.