CHAPTER 2. Commitment: To Self, Family, and Community

CHAPTER LINKS

Information on socialization can be found at:
http://www.open2.net/childofourtime/tv-pages/art_socialization_1.htm

Gender equity in sports and Title IX: http://www.bailiwick.lib.uiowa.edu/ge/

Information on children and teen empowerment in their school and communities: http://www.kidpower.org/
http://www.nea.org and http://www.nea.org/parents

CURRENT RESEARCH ARTICLES AND BOOKS

Self and Identities

Baumeister, R. F. (1998). The self. In D. T. Gilbert, S. T. Fiske, & G. Lindzey (Eds.), Volume one, The Handbook of Social Psychology, (4th edition), pp. 680-740. Boston, MA: The McGraw-Hill Company.

Burke, P. J. (2004). Identities and social structure. Social Psychology Quarterly, 67: 5-15.

Socialization

Krishnakumar, A., Buehler, C., & Barber, B. K. (2004). Cross-ethnic equivalence of socialization measures in European American and African American youth. Journal of Marriage and Family, 66:809-820.

Settersten, R. A., Owens, T. J. (Eds.) (2002). New Frontiers in Socialization. Family and Life Course Studies, Volume 7. St. Louis, MO: Elsevier.

Communities

Crowder, K., & Teachman, J. Do residential conditions explain the relationship between living arrangements and adolescent behavior? Journal of Marriage and Family, 66: 721-738.

Crosnoe, R. (2004). Social capital and the interplay of families and schools. Journal of Marriage and Family, 66: 267-280.

Jarrett, R. L., & Jefferson, S. M. (2004). Women's danger management strategies in an inner-city housing project. Family Relations, 53: 138-147.