The culture of adolescent risk-taking
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The culture of adolescent risk-taking
(Culture and human development / Sara Harkness and Charles M. Super, editors)
Guilford Press, c1997
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- :pbk.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-179) and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
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:hard ISBN 9781572301894
Description
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.
Table of Contents
- The history of our ambivalence
- the interpretive turn
- play as interpretive activity
- adolescent risk-taking as a transformative experience
- risk-taking as the architecture of adolescent society
- pursuing depth.
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:pbk. ISBN 9781572302327
Description
An in-depth exploration of the relationship between adolescent risk-taking and peer group culture, based on extensive interviews with teens themselves, this elegantly written book shows that taking risks is a 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, Cynthia Lightfoot elucidates the cultural and psychological processes through which risk acquires meaning for teenagers and vividly depicts the drama and daring of adolescent social life.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. The History of Our Ambivalence
3. The Interpretive Turn
4. Play as Interpretive Activity
5. Adolescent Risk-Taking as Transformative Experience
6. Risk-Taking and the Architecture of Adolescent Society (with Jean Louis Gariepy)
7. Pursuing Depth
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