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Beckett, Angharad E. – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2014
This article discusses findings from an Economic and Social Research Council-funded study exploring non-disabled children's ideas about disability. This represents the first in-depth sociological investigation of children's ideas about disabled people as members of wider society. Data are presented from focus group discussions with children aged…
Descriptors: Children, Childhood Attitudes, Attitudes toward Disabilities, Focus Groups
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Dhariwal, Amrit; Connolly, Jennifer – Journal of Research on Adolescence, 2013
The current study examined 1316 South Asian youth socialized in progressively Westernized contexts: "traditional" Indian homeland single-sex schools, "transitional" Indian homeland co-educational schools, and the immigrant "diaspora" in Canadian schools. Results showed youth in the three contexts were similar on…
Descriptors: Asians, Cross Cultural Studies, Intimacy, Attachment Behavior
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Dabul, Amy J.; And Others – Journal of Social Psychology, 1995
Posits a distinction between cultures motivated by individualistic value systems (idiocentric) and collectivistic value systems (allocentric). Study reveals that Mexican American adolescents describe themselves in more allocentric terms, while Anglo American adolescents choose idiocentric terms. Suggests a correlation between idiocentric values…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Anglo Americans, Beliefs