Everyday courage : the lives and stories of urban teenagers

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Label

Everyday courage : the lives and stories of urban teenagers

Title remainder

the lives and stories of urban teenagers

Statement of responsibility

Niobe Way

Creator

• Way, Niobe, 1963-

Contributor

• JSTOR Open Access

Provider

• JSTOR Open Access

Subject

• Adolescence -- United States
• Electronic resources
• SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology | Urban
• Social Science
• Teenagers with social disabilities
• Teenagers with social disabilities -- United States -- Case studies
• Teenagers with social disabilities -- United States -- Longitudinal studies
• United States
• Urban youth
• Urban youth -- United States -- Case studies
• Urban youth -- United States -- Longitudinal studies
• Adolescence

Genre

• Longitudinal studies
• Case studies

Language

eng

Summary

What does it mean to be a teenager in an American city at the close of the twentieth century? How do urban surroundings affect the ways in which teens grow up, and what do their stories tell us about human development? In particular, how do the negative images of themselves on television and in the newspaper affect their perspectives about themselves? Psychologists typically have shown little interest in urban youth, preferring instead to generalize about adolescent development from studies of their middle-class, suburban counterparts. In Everyday Courage Niobe Way, a developmental psychologis

Member of

• Qualitative studies in psychology

Cataloging source

EBLCP

Index

no index present

LC call number

HQ796 .W325 1998

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

Qualitative Studies in Psychology