People Need Help, but People Take Advantage: The Dilemma of Social Responsibility for Upwardly Mobile Youth.

Steinitz, Victoria

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People Need Help, but People Take Advantage: The Dilemma of Social Responsibility for Upwardly Mobile Youth

Steinitz, Victoria

Youth and Society, 7, 4, 439-460, Jun 76

In depth interviews with potentially mobile high school seniors are examined for clues as to why ambibalence about helping other people is widespread. In general, views of helping relationships seem to be channelled by perceptions of the route to a personally successful adulthood. (Author/AM)

Descriptors: Case Studies, Cultural Images, Cultural Influences, Helping Relationship, High School Seniors, Human Relations, Secondary Education, Social Mobility, Social Responsibility, Youth

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