Youth & Society articles from December 1998

Youth & Society archives from December 1998

ENVIRONMENT AND INTERPRETATION.
December 1, 1998... Voices of Young People in Poor Inner-City Neighborhoods The presence of an underclass(1) in the affluent United States raises issues of social justice. Inner-city poverty is a visible reminder of extreme inequality in the distribution of...

OCCUPATIONAL SEX-TYPING AND OCCUPATIONAL PRESTIGE.(Statistical Data Included)
December 1, 1998... A Comparative Study of Adolescents and Adults in Israel The past two decades have witnessed rapid normative changes in gender role attitudes, role behavior, and division of labor between men and women in Western countries (Lewis, 1992) as...

THE STRUGGLE FOR SELF.
December 1, 1998... Power and Identity in Adolescent Girls It is hard to be a teenager these days. As educators, parents, and social service professionals know, the current generation faces the struggles of growing up common to all adolescents. But, they...

FINDING THE NICHE.(friendships of minority adolescents)
December 1, 1998... Friendship Formation of Immigrant Adolescents Once upon a time, across the Pacific Ocean far away from America, a Chinese mother commented on her daughter's way of holding her chopsticks. "How do you expect to pick up anything when you...

FAME, FORTUNE, AND FAILURE.(moral view of popular music by young girls)
December 1, 1998... Young Girls' Moral Language Surrounding Popular Culture INTRODUCTION New Kids on the Block just went bad. --Amy, 9 years old Amy, along with 18 other preadolescent girls, freely shared their moral judgments about the pop...