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The Culture of Adolescent Risk-Taking - Couverture rigide

Lightfoot, Cynthia

 
9781572301894: The Culture of Adolescent Risk-Taking
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 1572301899 ISBN 13 : 9781572301894
Editeur : Guilford Publications, 1997

Synopsis

An exploration of the relationship between adolescent risk-taking and peer group culture, based on extensive interviews with teens themselves, this study shows that taking risks is an natural and necessary part of growing up. The author proposes that risks are declarations of the self, worn like badges of autonomy, or defiance, or group membership. With a broad interpretive approach locating human action within the symbolic forms, communicative practices, and shared idioms of culture, Lightfoot elucidates the cultural and psychological processes through which risk acquires meaning for teenagers - depicting the drama and daring of adolescent social life. This book should be of interest to professionals and students in developmental, adolescent, and health psychology and in anthropology.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

An exploration of the relationship between adolescent risk-taking and peer group culture, based on extensive interviews with teens themselves, this study shows that taking risks is an natural and necessary part of growing up. The author proposes that risks are declarations of the self, worn like badges of autonomy, or defiance, or group membership. With a broad interpretive approach locating human action within the symbolic forms, communicative practices, and shared idioms of culture, Lightfoot elucidates the cultural and psychological processes through which risk acquires meaning for teenagers - depicting the drama and daring of adolescent social life.; This book should be of interest to professionals and students in developmental, adolescent, and health psychology and in anthropology.

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Éditeur
Guilford Publications
Date d'édition
1997
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1572301899
ISBN 13 
9781572301894
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
196
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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