Author note: Victoria Anne Steinitz is Associate Professor, College of Public and Community Service at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. Ellen Rachel Solomon is Faculty Associate, Institute for Writing and Thinking at Bard College.
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Two interviews, one at the end of high school, the other four years later, with a sample of promising young people from working-class backgrounds in "Milltown," "Townline," and "Cityville," near Boston, form the nucleus of this significant work. Emphasis is on the relationship between social class and individual development, the role of "community" in shaping both the initial hopes of these young people for their future and their later perceptions of self-image and the possible. The author's observations have great import, particularly for educators, who should be knowledgeable about these representative young men and women in order to help them realize their potential. A perceptive study, highly recommended. Suzanne W. Wood, SUNY Agricultural & Technical Coll. Lib., Alfred
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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"Based on interviews with working-class white youths in three communities near Boston, this book "gives us two snapshots of three groups of youths who find themselves in the crisis of the early seventies." --Contemporary Sociology "For today's teachers of working-class youth, who may still believe it's necessary to convince their students that 'to move up, one must move out,' Steinitz and Solomon have some advice." --The Boston Sunday Globe "A vivid examination of working-class youth's coming of age within the confines of the mythology and reality of the American Dream." --Harvard Educational Review "Steinitz and Solomon have plunged into the worlds of working class youth and emerged with a sensitive report on these youths' agendas, ambitions, and melancholia-matters normally hidden from the academic bourgeoisie. We are offered a poignant portrait of a crowd whose members have, we discover, thoroughly distinctive faces." --Robert E. Lane, Professor Emeritus, Yale University "This fine qualitative study is a highly readable and thoughtful examination of working-class life that belongs on the bookshelves of psychologists concerned with identity or adolescence." --Contemporary Psychology "This book brings the missing voices of working class students into the debates on education. Students in my classes read it and feel the shock of recognition and understanding...a wonderful book." --Joseph Featherstone, Michigan State University
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