Rhetorical, historical, and feminist perspectives are used to critique some common assumptions about adolescents and their universal and distinctive status. The characteristics often perceived as timeless can be located within a sociohistorical context of their creation. The view of adolescents as out of control due to hormonal action is…

Through an analysis of the development and significance of youth cultures and subcultures in eastern and western Europe, it is argued that such cultures are important in creating generational consciousness and defining generations. There are differences in the ways young people are situated in relation to consumer culture. (SLD)

Contains seven essays addressing the following topics: (1) Israeli youths' search for identity; (2) the Black Panthers of Israel; (3) cultural characteristics and group image of religious youth; (4) drug use among high school students; (5) Israeli youth movements; (6) proscriptive values in high school youth; and (7) disadvantaged youngsters in a…

Outlines the crisis-engendering tensions and the main stages of youth identity formation through the history of Israel. Details the historical, political, and psychological origins of identity crises among Israeli youth and the coping styles they have developed. (RDN)

Traces the emergence and development of an Israeli protest movement--the mainly slum-based Black Panthers--its politicization, and its decline. Looks at this development and the issues raised by the Panthers against the backdrop of the conflictual relations in Israeli society. (RDN)

Describes the structure and development of religious schools in Israel--the yeshiva for boys, the ulpana for girls. Details the graduates' unique cultural identity, their career and family preferences, their attitudes to the military, and their emergence as a national elite. (RDN)

Reviews the youth unemployment problem and focuses on employment and training programs. Discusses, in separate sections, the causes of the youth employment problem; demand-related causes; supply-related causes; the effectiveness of strategies for assisting disadvantaged youth; linking young workers with employers; and implications for policy. (KH)

Youth today remains marginal to the primary institutions of American life. They no longer have opportunities within the family to develop skills, exercise responsibilities, or learn adult roles. Youths spend long periods of the day segregated in schools; longer periods in passive entertainment. Alienation results in political apathy, mental…

Authors conclude from literature survey that children worldwide fear nuclear war. Resulting feelings of powerlessness, hopelessness, and resignation may be heightened by adults' inappropriate response to and denial of threat. Article suggests systemic interventions directed at familial and larger social systems to allay fears. Also recommends…

Reports that poverty among American youth increased between 1959 and 1982. Suggests that this was a combined effect of high unemployment, cuts in social welfare programs, and, most significantly, the increase in households headed by single women. Presents statistics on family demographics, race, and income, and calls for more supportive public…

Attempts to explain why a cohort of Polish youth participated so actively in the Solidarity movement of 1980-81, even though studies of these youth conducted in the early 1970s had shown their values to be of a private-stabilization nature. Focuses on the effects of Poland's economic crisis and life under martial law. (KH)

Criticizes conceptual underpinnings of a 1970 study by Schwartz and Stryker. Proposes a framework more sensitive to interconnections between social structure and self-image and argues for a dimension of openness (to the impact of new relationships and experiences) that speaks to the modifiability of self-images. (CMG)

Extends earlier conceptualization of the self-attitudes/delinquency causal process (viz, that deviant responses are motivated by earlier development of self-rejecting attitudes in the course of normative group experiences and function to assuage those attitudes) to incorporate situations in which social devaluations likely to diminish self-esteem…

Discusses six ways in which the self is used as an important variable in explaining adolescent drug abuse and the differences and similarities among the theories. (CMG)

Analyzes data from a juvenile diversion program which seem to indicate that as program services increased, the likelihood of participant recidivism increased. Maintains that the unexpected findings resulted from flaws in data recording within the program and suggests that program designs should incorporate evaluation strategies in order to ensure…