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

Furstenberg, Frank

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0226273938 ISBN 13: 9780226273938

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 2000

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, Jr. is the Zellerbach Family Professor of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. Thomas D. Cook is the professor of sociology, psychology, education, and policy research at Northwestern University. Jacquelynne Eccles is a professor of education and psychology at the University of Michigan. Glen H. Elder, Jr. is the Odum Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Arnold Sameroff is professor of psychology at the University of Michigan.

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: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0226273938
• ISBN 13: 9780226273938
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 306