This book describes and analyzes, from an interdisciplinary
point of view, those problems of youth that are currently objects
of remedial action on both community and national levels. It
explores the many causes of adolescent happiness and discontent,
behavior and misbehavior, aspirations and aversions in the rapidly
changing patterns of contemporary class, institutional, and
cultural settings. It provides practical information for all
professionals concerned with adolescent problems and affords small
comfort to any who hopes for quick results.
Problems of Youth first considers problems traditionally
considered in youth research, discussing adolescent attitudes and
goals within a broadly applicable theory of adolescent development.
The second part concentrates on youth problems in terms of their
dynamics in social and cultural settings undergoing change at
different rates. The third part presents studies of youth in
trouble, offering guidelines for new theoretical and empirical
approaches and underscoring the need, to study individual youth
problems within their socio-cultural and class frameworks. The
final part attempts through research and measurement the major
sources of influences affecting youth.
Reflecting the position that there is a constant danger of
viewing adolescence exclusively through the eyes of one's own
specialty, the contributors to this volume take a
cross-disciplinary approach to the subject, drawing on resources of
other fields to expand the perspective of their particular area of
specialization. In doing so, they offer all students of sociology,
social psychology, and related disciplines a new, unified approach
to the timely paradox of youth in transition with itself and with a
world that is itself in transition.
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