Full Description
This volume contains a diverse set of chapters that offer a good balance of quantitative and qualitative methodologies; focus on children, youth, or both children and youth; and come from a variety of theoretical perspectives. Two prominent themes of the volume are adolescents' transition to adulthood and children's time-use issues. Several chapters address each of these issues, including one examining children's labor in Senegal. Two ethnographic studies are included: one analyzes student-teacher interaction in an urban high-school math class, while the other examines friendship development and maintenance of early elementary-aged African American girls. The volume also includes a policy analysis of medical insurance provision for low income children, and a response to an earlier chapter on children's rights that appeared in Volume 8.
Contents
Introduction.Comment on fine, espeland, and rojiek's "young citizens: The
position of children in communitarian theory".
Gender, race, class, and the transition to adulthood: A critical review of the literature.
Neighborhoods and inequality: The possibilities for
successful transition to adulthood.
Race/ethnicity, gender, and adolescents' occupational
aspirations: An examination of family context.
Child health, social
policy and the new chip program.
Children and housework: Some unanswered
questions.
Child labor and household survival strategies in west
africa.
Just play? A framework for analyzing children's time
use.
In girls, out girls, and always black: African-american
girls' friendships.
Counterfeit classrooms: School life of
inner-city children.
