Adolescent Boys: Exploring Diverse Cultures of Boyhood

摘要: A flurry of best-selling works has recently urged us to rescue and protect boys. They have described how boys are failing at school, acting out, or shutting down emotionally. Lost in much the ensuing public conversation themselves--the texture their lives ways which they resist stereotypical representations them. Most this work on is based primarily middle class, white Yet from poor working class families as well those African American, Latino, Asian American backgrounds need be understood own terms not just a contrast Adolescent Boys brings together most up-to-date empirical research focused understanding development diverse racial, ethnic, socioeconomic backgrounds. The authors show contexts boys' lives, such schools attend shape identities relationships. book will help professionals parents understand diversity richness experiences.