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So, Suzanna; Gaylord-Harden, Noni K.; Voisin, Dexter R.; Scott, Darrick – Youth & Society, 2018
For African American youth disproportionately exposed to community violence and the associated risk of externalizing behaviors, developmental assets that reduce the risk for externalizing behaviors and enhance adaptive coping should be explored. In a sample of 572 African American adolescents (M[subscript age] = 15.85; SD = 1.42), the current…
Descriptors: African Americans, Adolescents, Violence, Gender Differences
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Liu, Lin; Xie, Ailei – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2016
This paper reports the findings of an eight-month ethnographic study of a small group of at-risk youths in a school of a southern coastal city in China. The process leading to the young students being marginalised by the school system and how they developed a "muddling through" subculture to counteract this marginalisation is revealed.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Ethnography, At Risk Students, Student Subcultures