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Author: Kristin Luker
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9780674217034
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTraces the way popular attitudes came to demonize young mothers and examines the profound social and economic changes that have influenced debate on the issue, especially since the 1970s. --From publisher description.
Author: Kristin Luker
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2009-06-30
Total Pages: 334
ISBN-13: 0674040384
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is both a handbook for defining and completing a research project, and an astute introduction to the neglected history and changeable philosophy of modern social science.
Author: Jonathan Mathew Finn
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 189
ISBN-13: 0816650691
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis title traces how the act of representing and watching is central to modern law enforcement. Finn analyzes the development of police photography in the 19th century to foreground a critique of three identification practices that are fundamental to current police work.
Author: Susan E. Chase
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 374
ISBN-13: 9780813528755
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMotherhood is a highly personal array of experiences with a uniquely public dimension, preoccupying policymakers, advice givers, health care providers, religious leaders, child care workers, educators, and total strangers who feel entitled to judge mothers they see with their children in the neighborhood or on the TV news. Chase (U. of Tulsa) and Rogers (U. of West Florida) approach motherhood and mothering as feminist sociologists, focusing on questions such as how ideas about motherhood are shaped by social and historical conditions, how ideas about motherhood change over time and across social contexts, who has the power to make their definitions of motherhood stick, and what diverse groups of mothers themselves think. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR
Author: David Checkland
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 1999-01-01
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9780802080707
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNine original essays explore the many factors affecting how Canadian society responds to, and creates, the phenomenon of teen parenting. A challenges to assumptions about the circumstances, consequences and experience of teen parenting.
Author: Luca Incurvati
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-01-23
Total Pages: 255
ISBN-13: 1108497829
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents a detailed and critical examination of the available conceptions of set and proposes a novel version.
Author: Jyl J. Josephson
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2016-05-01
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 143846049X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPublic policy often assumes there is one correct way to be a family. Rethinking Sexual Citizenship argues that policies that enforce this idea hurt all of us and harm our democracy. Jyl J. Josephson uses the concept of "sexual citizenship" (a criticism of the assumption that all families have a heterosexual at their center) to show how government policies are made to punish or reward particular groups of people. This analysis applies sexual citizenship not only to policies that impact LGBTQ families, but also to other groups, including young people affected by abstinence-only public policies and single-parent families affected by welfare policy. The book also addresses the idea that the "normal" family in the United States is white. It concludes with a discussion of how scholars and activists can help create a more inclusive democracy by challenging this narrow view of public life.
Author: Kathryn E. Linder
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2014-04-24
Total Pages: 169
ISBN-13: 0739187511
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSpringfield. Columbine. Sandy Hook. Each school shooting in the United States is followed by a series of questions. Why does this happen? Who are the shooters? How can this be prevented? Along with parents, school officials, media outlets, and scholars, popular culture has also attempted to respond to these questions through a variety of fictional portrayals of rampage violence. Rampage Violence Narratives: What Fictional Accounts of Rampage Violence Say about the Future of America’s Youth offers a detailed look at the state of youth identity in American cultural representations of youth violence through an extended analysis of over forty primary sources of fictional narratives of urban and suburban/rural school violence. Representations of suburban and rural school shootings that are modeled after real-life events serve to shape popular understandings of the relationship between education and American identity, the liminal space between childhood and adulthood, and the centrality of white heterosexual masculinity to definitions of social and political success in the United States. Through a series of "case studies" that offer in-depth examinations of fictional depictions of school shootings in film and literature, it becomes clear that these stories are representative of a larger social narrative regarding the future of the United States. The continuing struggle to understand youth violence is part of an ongoing conversation about what it means to raise future citizens within a cultural moment that views youth through a lens of anxiety rather than optimism.
Author: Norine G. Johnson
Publisher: Amer Psychological Assn
Published: 1999-01-01
Total Pages: 464
ISBN-13: 9781557985828
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This volume presents a balanced view of teen girls that emphasizes their strengths as well as the challenges they must meet. In Beyond Appearance: A New Look at Adolescent Girls, the contributing authors review and assess research on girls from a variety of racial and ethnic as well as socioeconomic backgrounds, searching for commonalities as well as differences."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author: Joan N. Burstyn
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2001-04-01
Total Pages: 391
ISBN-13: 1135652767
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSchool violence is a burning issue these days. This book provides an in-depth analysis of violence prevention programs and an assessment of their effectiveness, using data from observations, individual interviews, and focus groups, as well as published data from the schools. It is distinguished by its focus on the cultural and structural context of school violence and violence prevention efforts. Where most other researchers use quantitative measures, such as surveys, to assess the effectiveness of violence prevention programs, the authors of this book use qualitative research and ethnography to study the environment where such programs take place. Thus, this work--one of only a few ethnographic studies of violence prevention programs in schools--links previous quantitative research on the topic and critical ethnography. Preventing Violence in Schools: A Challenge to American Democracy: *includes voices of school students, accused of practicing violence, who have been participants in violence prevention programs; *analyzes a citywide peer mediation program (who benefits and who does not, who is mediated and who mediates, and what the implications of these findings may be); *examines the kinds of violence recognized in schools and the ways schools themselves may perpetuate violence; and *describes a violence prevention program for students at an alternative school. Preventing Violence in Schools: A Challenge to American Democracy is highly relevant for students in courses on urban education, foundations of education, education and social policy, youth and the law, and qualitative research, and for teachers, administrators, and other professionals, such as school psychologists and guidance counselors, at the middle and high school levels.
