Constructing Social Reality: Self Portraits of Poor Black Adolescents / Edition 1

by Loretta Brunious

Overview

This book examines how black children who grow up in an impoverished environment construct their social reality, and why this process is a particulary critical factor in their perception and creation of self. It argues that black disadvantaged children develop a lifestyle and adopt values based on an identity grounded in racism, inequality, violence and poverty. "Constructing Social Relaity: Self Portraits of poor Black Adolescents" makes a valuable contribution to the scholarship by investigating the phenomena of poverty from cognitive, linguistic, and experiential persepctives in the lives of disadvantaged black adolescents.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415932592
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/02/2002
Series:	Children of Poverty Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	246
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Tables and Illustrations Foreword Acknowledgements 1. Introduction 2. The Course of Construction 3. Primary Socialization and Construction of Reality 4. Listen: Do You Hear What I Hear? 5. Showdown: Impact of Mass Media and Popular Culture 6. Reality Is Socially Constructed! The Causal Network Pilot Study Wolf's Artwork References Index