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Matthews, Hugh; Taylor, Mark; Percy-Smith, Barry; Limb, Melanie – Childhood: A Global Journal of Child Research, 2000
Examines attitudes toward the role of the shopping mall as a place for congregating. Notes that adult attitudes reflect a discomfort with teenagers being in a place where they have no clear role, while teenagers transgress and question the spatial hegemony of adulthood, creating a "thirdspace" reflecting their place between adulthood and…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescents, Cultural Context, Developmental Stages
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Matthews, Hugh; Taylor, Mark; Sherwood, Kenneth; Tucker, Faith; Limb, Melanie – Journal of Rural Studies, 2000
A survey and interviews with 372 youth aged 9-16 in rural Northhamptonshire (England) explored children's experiences of rural life. Challenging the image of the idyllic rural childhood, many youth, especially the least affluent and teenagers, felt detached from village life, powerless, and unable to find autonomous social space away from adult…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adult Child Relationship, Alienation, Child Rearing