The Adolescent: Development, Relationships, and Culture
The Youthful: Development, Relationships, and Culture Books
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The Youthful: Development, Relationships and Culture offers an eclectic, interdisciplinary approach to the study of adolescence, presenting both psychological and sociological viewpoints as well as educational, demographic, and economic data.
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My textbook came in quickly and in fantastic shape up (considering it was used). I will certainly buy from this seller again.
Rating: 5 / 5
Fantastic seller, prompt shipping and product was just so as described… Fantastic shape up and had no problem at all.
Rating: 5 / 5
There is vital info found in this book. But, it is the same as any other psyc book.
Rating: 1 / 5
I am now studying for the final in a class that uses this textbook as the primary text. I’ve read near every page of this text for this course. I’d like to give you an example of the depth of the its theme matter:
“Best friends ordinarily get by the side of well because they are similar and thus compatible.”
….Really?! (That’s not even an introductory sentence.)
I’d also like to note that even as this text focuses on diversity issues (which I commit them for trying), nearly all of the supporting statistics are at least 10 years ancient and thus absolutely useless in today’s world.
Unless you magically skipped youthful life, you won’t find anything in this text that you didn’t already know from your own youthful experience.
BOTTOM LINE: Don’t read this if you don’t have to, and certainly don’t pay for it if you do end up reading it. I’m sure there’s another text out there that would be better for you.
Reading this was a waste of my time. Don’t make it a waste of yours.
Rating: 1 / 5
This book presents a comprehensive view of youthful psychology. In the first half of the book the author, F. Philip Rice, includes a chapter describing such common youthful tehories as those of Piaget and Erikson, and presents the strengths and weaknesses of each theory. He also devotes a chapter to youthful corporal development. From reading the first few chapters, it seems like a standard college textbook. What sets this book apart from many textbooks dealing with this theme, but, is its focus on diversity issues and youthful culture.
F. Philip Rice, the book’s author, argues that most psychological surveys of adolescents do not take ethnicity into account. He believes that it is vital to include ethnicity as a factor in such studies, for the cultural beliefs, values, and traditions of the different minority populations in America (i.e., African Americans, Asians, Mexicans, Native Americans, and Puerto Ricans) and describing their religious beliefs, family traditions, and cultural attitudes towards such topics as dating, marriage, and education. It is vital to note that he describes Mexicans and Puerto Ricans as separate groups. Most studies, he argues, tend to group both these ethnicities as “Hispanics,” but they each as a group have their own cultural traditions and attitudes.
Rice’s chapter on youthful culture is the highlight of the work. In this section, he focuses on his theory of youthful subculture, which “emphasizes conformity to the peer group and values that are contrary to adult values. This culture exists primarily in the high school, where it constitutes a small society…” (Rice, 236). Rice argues that, since this subculture primarily exists within the confines of high school, adolescents are able to form their own systems of values and beliefs separate from adult society. He devotes a large part of the chapter to how adolescents are able to form their own class system and make their own status indicators, and shows how their world can be seen as a scaled-down version of adult society.
This is a wonderful textbook for students, and an outstanding reference for secondary school administrators and guidance counselors. If this work is used in a college course, but, it should serve as a compliment to other books, rather than serve as the primary work, because of its lack of case studies.
Rating: 4 / 5