Young People Social Capital And Ethnic Identity

Author : Tracey Reynolds
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317966555

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Social capital and ethnicity are crucial to young people’s understandings of their social world. The strong bonding networks often assumed in ethnic groups suggest that individuals may prefer to be bonded to each other according to shared socio-cultural factors such as shared histories, memories, language, customs, traditions and values. However, bridging forms of social capital allow new understandings of ethnic identities to emerge, and which involve dynamic and complex social processes that are continually changing and evolving according to time, location and context. This book explores the ways in which the concepts of social capital and ethnicity play a central role in young people’s relationships, participation in wider social networks and the construction of identities. Researchers and scholars working in the fields of children and youth studies, education, families, social and racial and ethnic studies, offer differing accounts of the ways in which social capital operates in young people’s lives across diverse social settings and ethnic groups. This edited book is timely and significant given the public interest of researchers, academics, politicians and policymakers working in areas of youth and community work, race relations and cultural diversity. This book was published as a special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies.

Author : Tracey Reynolds
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317966562

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Young People, Social Capital and Ethnic Identity by Tracey Reynolds Pdf

Social capital and ethnicity are crucial to young people’s understandings of their social world. The strong bonding networks often assumed in ethnic groups suggest that individuals may prefer to be bonded to each other according to shared socio-cultural factors such as shared histories, memories, language, customs, traditions and values. However, bridging forms of social capital allow new understandings of ethnic identities to emerge, and which involve dynamic and complex social processes that are continually changing and evolving according to time, location and context. This book explores the ways in which the concepts of social capital and ethnicity play a central role in young people’s relationships, participation in wider social networks and the construction of identities. Researchers and scholars working in the fields of children and youth studies, education, families, social and racial and ethnic studies, offer differing accounts of the ways in which social capital operates in young people’s lives across diverse social settings and ethnic groups. This edited book is timely and significant given the public interest of researchers, academics, politicians and policymakers working in areas of youth and community work, race relations and cultural diversity. This book was published as a special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies.

Author : Christiaan Grootaert
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : MINN:31951D023400814

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Measuring Social Capital by Christiaan Grootaert Pdf

The concept of social capital has become increasingly prominent in both the theoretical and applied social science literature over the last decade. This publication seeks to provide a set of empirical tools to measure social capital, focusing on its application in developing countries. The methodology aims to generate quantitative data on various dimensions of social capital as part of a larger household survey (such as the Living Standards Measurement Survey or a household income/expenditure survey). The paper also provides detailed guidance for the use and analysis of the data.

Author : Dirk Hoerder,Yvonne M. Hébert
Publisher : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Acculturation
ISBN : 9783899711790

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Negotiating Transcultural Lives by Dirk Hoerder,Yvonne M. Hébert Pdf

Societies of the early 21st century are composed of many intersecting cultures, defined by status as citizens or recent immigrants and other societal hierarchies. Past-oriented segments of state populations decry the loss of essentialized national identities. What is lacking in this set-up of the debate is the young generation. This volume brings together European and Canadian studies in sociology, history, and cultural studies.

Author : Helena Helve,J. M. Bynner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 187276777X

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Youth and Social Capital by Helena Helve,J. M. Bynner Pdf

Social capital arising from social networks based on trust has been traditionally seen as the property of adults from which the younger generation gain benefit. Far less attention has been given to the production of social capital among young people themselves, in making the transition from dependent child to independent adult. Through findings from research groups in Finland and England, this book fills the gap by examining how young people develop and use social capital in different contexts at school and outside, in cementing friendships, in developing identity, in smoothing the passage through education and from school to work, and in resisting coercion into pre-designated adult roles. As part of the developing field of youth studies, the book will be of much interest to academics and policy makers and practitioners working with young people.

Author : Tamara P. Trošt,Danilo Mandić
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351617864

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Changing Youth Values in Southeast Europe by Tamara P. Trošt,Danilo Mandić Pdf

What shapes the cultural, political and ideological values of young people living in Southeastern Europe? Which identities matter to them? How are their values changing, and how can they be changed? Who is changing them? Europe’s periphery is the testing ground for the success of European values and identities. The future stability and political coherence of the Union will be determined in large measure by identity issues in this region. This book examines the ways in which ethnic and national values and identities have been surpassed as the overriding focus in the lives of the region’s youth. Employing bottom-up, ethnographic, and interview-based approaches, it explores when and where ethnic and national identification processes become salient. Using intra-national and international comparisons of youth populations of Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, and Serbia, contributors uncover the mechanisms by which ethnic identities are evoked, reproduced and challenged. In addition to exploring political, regional cultural generational and class identities, the contributors examine wider questions of European unity. This volume offers a corrective to previous thinking about youth ethnic identities and will prove useful to scholars in political science and sociology studying issues of ethnic and national identities and nationalism, as well as youth cultures and identities.

Author : Les Back
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351674652

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New Ethnicities And Urban Culture by Les Back Pdf

Engaging exploration of race and youth culture which examines the development of new identities, ethnicities and forms of racism. This text analyzes the relationship between racism, community and adolescent social identities in the African and South Asian diasporas.; This book is intended for undergraduate and postgraduate students on courses in race and ethnicity, urban sociology, cultural studies and social anthropology. It will also have some appeal within social policy and social work.

Author : Alice Akoshia Ayikaaley Sawyerr,Christopher Adam Bagley
Publisher : Springer
Page : 14 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-13
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789463510806

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Equality and Ethnic Identities by Alice Akoshia Ayikaaley Sawyerr,Christopher Adam Bagley Pdf

This book combines history, sociology, psychology and educational policy in research on a 40-year, crucial phase of development of ethnic identity, ethnic relations and educational and social policies for children in England, from pre-school to secondary school. The authors show how nursery children of different ethnicities interact in beginning their identity journeys in a culture of both inequality, and evolving ethnic relationships and patterns of harmony, in Britain’s developing multicultural society. In looking at self-concept development in secondary school children through the lens of various kinds of child maltreatment, Alice Sawyerr and Christopher Bagley argue that ethnic minority children are psychological survivors, and African-Caribbean girls especially are making strong identity steps – it is the “poor whites” who will make up the precariat, the reserve army of labour, who are left behind in structures of inequality.

Author : Leo P. Chall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Sociology
ISBN : STANFORD:36105113575810

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Sociological Abstracts by Leo P. Chall Pdf

CSA Sociological Abstracts abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. The database provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,800+ serials publications, and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Translating and interpreting
ISBN : UOM:39015079919364

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TSA by Anonim Pdf

Author : Harry Goulbourne,Tracey Reynolds,John Solomos,Elisabetta Zontini
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011-05-11
Category : FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS
ISBN : 041567753X

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Transnational Families by Harry Goulbourne,Tracey Reynolds,John Solomos,Elisabetta Zontini Pdf

Contemporary Western society is changing and, controversially, migration is often flagged up as one of the reasons why. The nature of population change challenges the conventional understandings of family forms and networks whilst multiculturalism poses challenges to our understanding of social change, families and social capital. This innovative book provides an overview of the emergence of new understandings of ethnicities, identities and family forms across a number of ethnic groups, family types, and national boundaries. Based on new empirical data from fairly distinct sets of transnational family networks in minority communities with a substantial presence in the United Kingdom – principally, Caribbean and Italian, but also drawing on others such as Indian – it examines their lived experiences and uses the concept of social capital to explore how these families manage to maintain close and meaningful links. Transnational Families discusses, explains and illustrates the substantial problems and issues confronted by communities and families, academics and policy-makers/implementers, and non-governmental organisations within a transnational world. It will be of interest to students and scholars of migration, transnationalism, families and globalisation.

Author : Sadia Habib,Michael R. M. Ward
Publisher : Springer
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319961132

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Identities, Youth and Belonging by Sadia Habib,Michael R. M. Ward Pdf

This book contains empirical research from established and emerging scholars who draw upon interdisciplinary perspectives of space and place in order to investigate young people’s sense of identities and belongings in diverse international contexts. The contributors aim to enhance our understanding of how theories of belonging are employed in the study of youth identity as these young people come to belong at a local, national, global, and even virtual level. The collection draws on research in the rural, the urban, and online, showcasing key sites and communities that play a role in young people’s lives as they negotiate their sense of agency and sense of identity within the contexts of the locale. Identities, Youth and Belonging will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines including sociology, education, social policy, politics and geography.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Anthropology
ISBN : UCR:31210023580960

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Journal of Anthropological Research by Anonim Pdf

Author : Susan Saegert,J. Phillip Thompson,Mark R. Warren
Publisher : Russell Sage Foundation
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2002-01-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781610444828

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Social Capital and Poor Communities by Susan Saegert,J. Phillip Thompson,Mark R. Warren Pdf

Neighborhood support groups have always played a key role in helping the poor survive, but combating poverty requires more than simply meeting the needs of day-to-day subsistence. Social Capital and Poor Communities shows the significant achievements that can be made through collective strategies, which empower the poor to become active partners in revitalizing their neighborhoods. Trust and cooperation among residents and local organizations such as churches, small businesses, and unions form the basis of social capital, which provides access to resources that would otherwise be out of reach to poor families. Social Capital and Poor Communities examines civic initiatives that have built affordable housing, fostered small businesses, promoted neighborhood safety, and increased political participation. At the core of each initiative lie local institutions—church congregations, parent-teacher groups, tenant associations, and community improvement alliances. The contributors explore how such groups build networks of leaders and followers and how the social power they cultivate can be successfully transferred from smaller goals to broader political advocacy. For example, community-based groups often become platforms for leaders hoping to run for local office. Church-based groups and interfaith organizations can lobby for affordable housing, job training programs, and school improvement. Social Capital and Poor Communities convincingly demonstrates why building social capital is so important in enabling the poor to seek greater access to financial resources and public services. As the contributors make clear, this task is neither automatic nor easy. The book's frank discussions of both successes and failures illustrate the pitfalls—conflicts of interest, resistance from power elites, and racial exclusion—that can threaten even the most promising initiatives. The impressive evidence in this volume offers valuable insights into how goal formation, leadership, and cooperation can be effectively cultivated, resulting in a remarkable force for change and a rich public life even for those communities mired in seemingly hopeless poverty. A Volume in the Ford Foundation Series on Asset Building

Author : P. Aspinall,M. Song
Publisher : Springer
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137318893

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Mixed Race Identities by P. Aspinall,M. Song Pdf

This book explores the ethnic and racial options exercised by young mixed race people in Britain. It reveals the diverse ways in which young people identify and experience their mixed status, the complex nature of such identities, and the rise of other identity strands which are now challenging race and ethnicity as dominant and salient identities.