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Using both comparative evidence and case studies, this volume illustrates the common needs of youth throughout the world, despite the highly varied socio-cultural circumstances in which they develop, and makes a case for the role of youth as creative social assets and positive forces for social chan...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Tienda, Marta, Wilson, William J., 1935-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Colección:Jacobs Foundation series on adolescence.
Temas:
Urban youth > Cross-cultural studies.
City children > Cross-cultural studies.
Youth with social disabilities > Cross-cultural studies.
City dwellers.
Social ecology.
Social change.
Cross-cultural studies.
Urban Population
Adolescent Behavior
Social Environment
Social Change
Cross-Cultural Comparison
Jeunes en milieu urbain > Études transculturelles.
Enfants en milieu urbain > Études transculturelles.
Jeunes socialement défavorisés > Études transculturelles.
Citadins.
Écologie sociale.
Changement social.
Études transculturelles.
human ecology.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Life Stages > Adolescence.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Life Stages > Teenagers.
Social ecology
Social change
Cross-cultural studies
City dwellers
City children
Urban youth
Youth with social disabilities
Jeugd.
Steden.
Sociale problemen.
Vergelijkend onderzoek.
Samfundsvidenskab > Sociologi.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Comparative perspectives of urban youth / Marta Tienda and William Julius Wilson
  • Steering by the stars / Mamphela Ramphele
  • Children show the way / Jill Swart-Kruger and Louise Chawla
  • Adolescents as collaborators / Felton Earls and Mary Carlson
  • Have cities ceased to function as "integration machines" for young people? / Wilhelm Heitmeyer
  • From street children to all children / Irene Rizzini, Gary Barker, and Neide Cassaniga
  • Youth crime, community development, and social justice / Robert White
  • Youth violence prevention in America / Deborah Prothrow-Stith
  • Social learning and community participation with children at risk in two marginalized urban neighborhoods in Amman, Jordan / Curtis N. Rhodes [and others]
  • Work by the young / Jim McKechnie and Sandy Hobbs
  • Life skills for Ugandan youth / Fred Ogwal-Oyee
  • Prospect and retrospect / Marta Tienda and William Julius Wilson.

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