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1 online resource (288 pages) |
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Qualitative Studies in Psychology |
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Qualitative studies in psychology
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Contents |
Acknowledgments; "There Are Birds in the Projects": 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 |
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"If I Never Came Here I'd Be Irresponsible, Like a Little Kid": After-School Programs as Sites of Development and Identity ConstructionAppendix A: Methods; Appendix B: The Contextual Identity Interview: Protocol for Interview 1; Appendix C: The Contextual Identity Interview: Protocol for Interview 2; Appendix D: Photography Project; Appendix E: Coding Guidelines for Individuated versus Connected Self-Descriptors; Notes; References; Index; About the Author |
Summary |
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 |
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identities |
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identity |
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members |
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mid-western |
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After-school programs -- United States
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Interpersonal relations -- United States -- Case studies
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Youth with social disabilities -- United States -- Psychology -- Case studies
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Urban youth -- United States -- Psychology -- Case studies
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Identity (Psychology) in adolescence -- United States -- Case studies
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After-school programs
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Identity (Psychology) in adolescence
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Interpersonal relations
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Urban youth -- Psychology
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Youth with social disabilities -- Psychology
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United States
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Case studies
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Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780814785218 |
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0814785212 |
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