Cross-cultural perspectives on youth and violence /
Saved in:
| Imprint: | Stamford, Conn. : JAI Press, c1998. |
|---|---|
| Description: | xii, 257 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Contemporary studies in sociology. v. 18. |
| Subject: | |
| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3461449 |
Table of Contents:
- Pt. I. Macrosocial Views of Youth and Violence
- Introduction / Meredith W. Watts. Materialism and Individualism: Social Attitudes of Youth in Japan / Ofer Feldman. Normalcy and Deviance: Youth and the Culture of Violence in Brazil / Walter de Oliveira. Authoritarianism and Aggression: German Youth and Right-Wing Extremism / Detlef Oesterreich
- Pt. II. Violence and Social Organization
- Introduction / Meredith W. Watts. Understanding Youth Street Gangs: Economic Restructuring and the Urban Underclass / Joan Moore. As American as Apple Pie: Patterns in American Gang Violence / John M. Hagedorn. Collective Violence as Social Control: Right-Wing Youth in Germany / Werner Bergmann. Varieties of Violence-Proneness Among Male Youth / Meredith W. Watts and Jurgen Zinnecker
- Pt. III. Focus on Bullying
- Introduction / Meredith W. Watts. Bullying Among School Children in the United States / Susan P. Limber, Vicki C. Flerx and Maury A. Nation [et al.]. Bullying in Japanese Schools: Cultural and Social Psychological Perspectives / Shinkichi Sugimori. Perpetrators of School Violence: A Longitudinal Study of Bullying in German Schools / Jurgen Zinnecker
- Pt. IV. Youth Violence and Citizenship
- Introduction / Meredith W. Watts. Youth Violence, Citizenship, and Citizenship Education in the United States / Richard G. Braungart and Margaret M. Braungart.