The Culture of Adolescent Risk-Taking (Culture and Human Development)

Lightfoot, Cynthia

ISBN 10: 1572302321 / ISBN 13: 9781572302327

Published by The Guilford Press, 1997

About this Item

Satisfaction Guaranteed or your money back.

Seller Inventory # 1572302321

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Culture of Adolescent Risk-Taking (Culture and Human Development)
• Publisher: The Guilford Press
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1572302321
• ISBN 13: 9781572302327
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

About this title

Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Cynthia Lightfoot, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Human Development and Family Studies at Penn State University. Her professional publications and presentations focus principally on sociogenetic and interpretive approaches to human development, with special reference to adolescent peer culture and identity processes.

Foreword by Jaan Valsiner, Ph.D.