Adolescent Boys: Exploring Diverse Cultures of Boyhood
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A flurry of best-selling works has recently urged us to rescue and protect boys. They have described how boys are failing at school, acting out, or shutting down emotionally. Lost in much of the ensuing public conversation are the boys themselves—the texture of their lives and the ways in which they resist stereotypical representations of them.
Most of this work on boys is based primarily on middle class, white boys. Yet boys from poor and working class families as well as those from African American, Latino, and Asian American backgrounds need to be understood in their own terms and not just as a contrast to white or middle class boys. Adolescent Boys brings together the most up-to-date empirical research focused on understanding the development of boys from diverse racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic backgrounds.
The authors show how the contexts of boys' lives, such as the schools they attend shape their identities and relationships. The research in this book will help professionals and parents understand the diversity and richness of boys' experiences.
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Way (applied psychology, NYU) and Judy Chu (specialist in human development and psychology in education, and primary investigator for the "Learning What Boys Know" research project, Stanford) have put together an excellent book on explorations into the lives of adolescent boys. The essays are rich in diversity, not only in the populations of boys studied, but also in research methodology and theoretical perspective. A thorough reading of this book will take the reader far from the familiar (stereotyped) land of adolescent males; it gently insists on a rethinking of much of what has been said about this group's social and sexual development. Following an orienting introduction, the book offers 16 consistently clear essays organized into five sections: identity, family relationships, friends and peers, sexuality and romantic relationships, and schooling. The essays focus on "marginalized" subpopulations in a well-justified effort to demonstrate that many insights are derived from groups not part of the mainstream. The concentration on qualitative method makes clear the richness of possibilities offered by this method; individual chapters will be useful supplemental reading for undergraduate courses investigating qualitative methods. ^BSumming Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty. J. F. Heberle Albright College
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Citations
Way, N., & Chu, J. Y. (2004). Adolescent Boys: Exploring Diverse Cultures of Boyhood . NYU Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Way, Niobe and Judy Y. Chu. 2004. Adolescent Boys: Exploring Diverse Cultures of Boyhood. NYU Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Way, Niobe and Judy Y. Chu. Adolescent Boys: Exploring Diverse Cultures of Boyhood NYU Press, 2004.
Harvard Citation (style guide)Way, N. and Chu, J. Y. (2004). Adolescent boys: exploring diverse cultures of boyhood. NYU Press.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Way, Niobe, and Judy Y Chu. Adolescent Boys: Exploring Diverse Cultures of Boyhood NYU Press, 2004.
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