Constructing Social Reality: Self Portraits of Poor Black Adolescents
This book examines how black children who grow up in an impoverished environment construct their social reality, and why this process is a particulary critical factor in their perception and creation of self. It argues that black disadvantaged children develop a lifestyle and adopt values based on an identity grounded in racism, inequality, violence and poverty. "Constructing Social Relaity: Self Portraits of poor Black Adolescents" makes a valuable contribution to the scholarship by investigating the phenomena of poverty from cognitive, linguistic, and experiential persepctives in the lives of disadvantaged black adolescents.
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Constructing Social Reality: Self Portraits of Poor Black Adolescents
This book examines how black children who grow up in an impoverished environment construct their social reality, and why this process is a particulary critical factor in their perception and creation of self. It argues that black disadvantaged children develop a lifestyle and adopt values based on an identity grounded in racism, inequality, violence and poverty. "Constructing Social Relaity: Self Portraits of poor Black Adolescents" makes a valuable contribution to the scholarship by investigating the phenomena of poverty from cognitive, linguistic, and experiential persepctives in the lives of disadvantaged black adolescents.
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Constructing Social Reality: Self Portraits of Poor Black Adolescents

Constructing Social Reality: Self Portraits of Poor Black Adolescents

by Loretta Brunious
Constructing Social Reality: Self Portraits of Poor Black Adolescents

Constructing Social Reality: Self Portraits of Poor Black Adolescents

by Loretta Brunious

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This book examines how black children who grow up in an impoverished environment construct their social reality, and why this process is a particulary critical factor in their perception and creation of self. It argues that black disadvantaged children develop a lifestyle and adopt values based on an identity grounded in racism, inequality, violence and poverty. "Constructing Social Relaity: Self Portraits of poor Black Adolescents" makes a valuable contribution to the scholarship by investigating the phenomena of poverty from cognitive, linguistic, and experiential persepctives in the lives of disadvantaged black adolescents.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781138420410
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 07/11/2017
Pages: 246
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Tables and Illustrations Foreword Acknowledgements 1. Introduction 2. The Course of Construction 3. Primary Socialization and Construction of Reality 4. Listen: Do You Hear What I Hear? 5. Showdown: Impact of Mass Media and Popular Culture 6. Reality Is Socially Constructed! The Causal Network Pilot Study Wolf's Artwork References Index
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