UID:
almafu_9959237162202883
Format:
1 online resource (xx, 378 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-107-15348-4
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1-139-14034-5
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1-283-31644-7
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9786613316448
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1-139-13888-X
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1-139-14466-9
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1-139-14045-0
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1-139-13732-8
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1-139-14134-1
Series Statement:
The Jacobs Foundation series on adolescence
Content:
Research clearly indicates that ethnic groups differ significantly on levels of mental and physical health, antisocial behavior, and educational attainment. This book explains these variations among ethnic groups with respect to their psychological and social functioning and tests competing hypotheses about the mechanisms that might cause the functioning to be better, worse, or different in pattern from other groups. Attention is paid to educational attainments, antisocial behavior, schizophrenia and suicide, and to the complex and changing patterns of ethnic identity. The book also focuses on evidence on risk and protective factors that is used systematically to ask whether such factors might account for the differences in both migration histories and ethnic mixture. It concludes with a discussion of the multiple meanings of ethnicity, the major variations among ethnic groups, and the policy implications of the findings discussed in the book.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Foreword; Preface; 1 Natural Experiments, Causal Influences, and Policy Development; Validity of the Association; Noncausal Alternatives; Research Strategies to Test Possible Causal Mechanisms; Application of Migration Designs to Psychological Outcomes; Conclusions; 2 Growing Up Ethnic in the United Kingdom and the United States: Comparative Contexts for Youth Development; Introduction; The Demographic Context: Contemporary United Kingdom and United States; Socioeconomic Differentiation of Minority and Immigrant Youth; Summary and Implications
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3 The Multiple Facets of EthnicityEthnicity as a Self-Description or Personal Construct; Labeling as a Social Construction; Genetic Influences: Racial Differences in IQ; Genetic Construction of Ethnicity; Possible Mediators of Ethnic Effects; Conclusions; 4 Educational Attainments: Ethnic Differences in the United Kingdom; Introduction; Background; Geographical Location; Educational Attainments: Empirical Evidence; Understanding Ethnic Diversity in Educational Attainments in the United Kingdom; Conclusions; 5 Race and Ethnic Inequality in Educational Attainment in the United States
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IntroductionTheories of Ethnic Inequality in Educational Attainment; Race and Ethnic Inequality in Educational Attainment; The Survey of High School Seniors in the Pacific Northwest; Description of Race and Ethnic Disparities in Planning for College; Family and Socioeconomic Backgrounds of Students; Multivariate Analysis of College Plans; Does Social Background Have Comparable Effects Across Ethnic Communities?; Conclusions; Acknowledgments; 6 Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Crime and Delinquency in the United States; Sizing Up Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Crime
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Discrepancies Between Official Records and Self-ReportsPlace-Based Disparities in Crime; Explaining Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Crime; Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods; 7 Explaining Ethnic Variations in Crime and Antisocial Behavior in the United Kingdom; Introduction; Methodological and Conceptual Issues; Explaining Intergenerational Changes; Conclusion; 8 Cultural Differences in the Effects of Physical Punishment; Introduction; Physical Discipline and Abuse; Ethnic Group Differences; Children's Interpretations of Parenting; Policy Implications; Conclusions
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AcknowledgmentsAuthor Note; 9 Ethnicity and Mental Health: The Example of Schizophrenia in the African-Caribbean Population in Europe; Introduction; What Is Schizophrenia?; Who Gets Schizophrenia?; Where in the World Does Schizophrenia Occur?; Is Schizophrenia Really More Common in the UK African-Caribbean Population?; Is This Phenomenon Confined to Migrants to the United Kingdom?; Is the Rate of Schizophrenia Raised in the Country of Origin?; Is the Increased Incidence Confined to Schizophrenia Among the Psychoses, and to African-Caribbean Migrants as Opposed to Groups with Other Origins?
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New Evidence from Nottingham
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-61510-0
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-84993-4
Language:
English
URL:
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URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139140348
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