Managing to Make it – Urban Families & Adolscent Success: Urban Families and Adolescent Success: 1998 (John D & C T Macarthur FNDTN Ser Mental Health/DEV MF) - Hardcover

Furstenberg, Frank

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0226273911 ISBN 13: 9780226273914

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 1999

Synopsis

One of the myths about families in inner-city neighbourhoods is that they are characterized by poor parenting. The sociologist Frank Furstenberg and his colleagues explode this and other misconceptions about success, parenting, and socioeconomic advantage in this text. The book launches a series which focuses on how and why youth are able to overcome - rather than succumb to - social disadvantages. Based on more than 500 interviews and qualitative case studies of families in inner-city Philadelphia, the text reveals how parents managed different levels of resources and dangers in low-income neighbourhoods and how this management, rather than community involvement, contributed to the success of their children. The authors detail the factors that shape the trajectories of adolescents and in so doing provide information about programmes and services that should be useful to policy makers, sociologists, educators, and indeed anyone concerned with the fate of the urban poor.

About this title

About the Author:

Frank F. Furstenberg is the Zellerbach Family Professor of Sociology Emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of many books, most recently Destinies of the Disadvantaged: The Politics of Teenage Childbearing. Glen H. Elder Jr. is the Howard W. Odum Distinguished Research Professor of Sociology and research professor of psychology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

From the Inside Flap:

This groundbreaking study explodes common misconceptions about parenting and success in socioeconomically disadvantaged urban communities and launches a new series on how and why youth are able to overcome-rather than succumb to-social adversity.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0226273911
• ISBN 13: 9780226273914
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 306