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The Culture of Adolescent Risk-taking by Lightfoot, Cynthia. is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Culture of Adolescent Risk-taking about?
<p><p>An in-depth exploration of the relationship between adolescent risk-taking and peer group culture, based on extensive interviews with teens themselves, this elegantly written book shows that taking risks is a natural and necessary part of growing up. The author proposes that risks are declarations of the self, worn like badges of autonomy, or defiance, or group membership. With a broad interpretive approach locating human action within the symbolic forms, communicative practices, and shared idioms of culture, Cynthia Lightfoot elucidates the cultural and psychological processes through which risk acquires meaning for teenagers and vividly depicts the drama and daring of adolescent social life. <p></p> <h3>Stephanie Fariss</h3> <p>This book explores adolescent risk-taking from the perspective of the adolescents themselves. The author uses a multidisciplinary approach to the subject and argues that adolescent risk-taking is not a troublesome behavior so much as a basic social-psychological process that is a fundamental feature of all knowledge construction and that provides adolescents with the opportunity for personal growth. The purpose is to communicate a coherent perspectiv
Who reads The Culture of Adolescent Risk-taking?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Lightfoot, Cynthia.
- Publisher
- Guilford Press, 72 Spring Street, New York, NY 10012; phone: 800-365-7006; fax: 212-966-6708; e-mail: [email protected]; (paperback: ISBN-1-57230-232-1, $16.95; hardcover: ISBN-1-57230-189-9, $32)
- Published
- 1997
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781572302327
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Sociology, Gender Studies, Psychology