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In a timely contribution to current debates over the psychology of boys and the construction of their social lives, <i>On My Honor</i> explores the folk customs of adolescent males in the Boy Scouts of America during a summer encampment in California's Sierra Nevada. Drawing on more than twenty years of research and extensive visits and interviews with members of the troop, Mechling uncovers the key rituals and play events through which the Boy Scouts shapes boys into men. He describes the campf
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- Author
- Jay Mechling; ProQuest (Firm)
- Publisher
- Chicago ; London: University of Chicago Press
- Published
- 2001
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780226517056
- Category
- social science
- Subjects
- Science, Social Science, Sociology
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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