SEARCH FOR POWER AND PARTICIPATION - YOUTH, NEGROES, AND THE POOR (FROM CRIME AND DELINQUENCY, A READER, 1970 BY CARL A BERSANI - SEE NCJ-006248)

• NCJ Number: 10215
• Author(s): M E WOLFGANG
• Date Published: 1970
• Length: 4 pages
• Corporate Author: Macmillan
• Publication Format: Document
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America
• Note: REPRINTED FROM THE CULTURE OF YOUTH, BY MARVIN E. WOLFGANG, GPO, 1967

Annotation

SOCIOLOGICAL SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THREE GROUPS OF INDIVIDUALS - YOUTH, NEGROES, AND THE POOR.

Abstract

SIMILARITIES SHARED BY THE THREE GROUPS INCLUDE VALUE SYSTEMS DIFFERING FROM THE LARGER SOCIETY, EXPERIENCING SPATIAL SEGREGATION, A FEELING OF SELF CONCIOUSNESS, AND A SEARCHING FOR MEANINGFULNESS, IDENTITY, AND SOCIAL JUSTICE. ONE OF THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE GROUPS IS THE RELATIVE PERMANENCY OF THEIR STATUS-THE YOUTH BEING ABLE TO CHANGE THEIRS THROUGH AGING ALONE, WHILE NEGROES AND THE POOR ARE LARGELY UNABLE TO AFFECT A CHANGE.