Pathways to Adulthood for Disconnected Young Men in Low-Income Communities E-Book

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Seitenzahl: 218

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Beschreibung

As the chapters in this volume demonstrate, young, disadvantaged men from urban neighborhoods face a unique set of challenges and constraints as they transition to adulthood. Yet, these challenges are not always contained by place. Research among Latino and White disadvantaged men in nonurban settings highlights the pressures that come along with fatherhood for disadvantaged men. In contrast to popular understandings of absent or disengaged fathers, findings reveal how fatherhood and increasing levels of interdependence during early adulthood can buffer men as they make the difficult transition to adulthood. The innovative field-based research featured in this volume illuminates the contexts, processes, and meanings in life pathways for disadvantaged men as they move from adolescence into adulthood and should help to inform policies and practices directed at minimizing their marginalization from mainstream society. This is the 143rd volume in this series. Its mission is to provide scientific and scholarly presentations on cutting edge issues and concepts in child and adolescent development. Each volume focuses on a specific new direction or research topic and is edited by experts in that field.

Leseprobe

New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development

Lene Arnett Jensen Reed W. Larson EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

William Damon FOUNDING EDITOR

Pathways to Adulthood for Disconnected Young Men in Low-Income Communities

Kevin Roy

Nikki Jones EDITORS

Number 143 • Spring 2014

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PATHWAYS TO ADULTHOOD FOR DISCONNECTED YOUNG MEN IN LOW-INCOME COMMUNITIES Kevin Roy, Nikki Jones (eds.) New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, no. 143 Lene Arnett Jensen, Reed W. Larson, Editors‐in‐Chief

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CONTENTS

Chapter 1: Theorizing Alternative Pathways Through Adulthood: Unequal Social Arrangements in the Lives of Young Disadvantaged Men

Inequality and the Model of Emerging Adulthood

Unequal Social Arrangements Through Mass Incarceration

Unequal Social Arrangements in Postfamilial Families

Unequal Social Arrangements as Process of Disconnection

A Call for Theorizing Transitions Among Diverse Groups of Young Men

References

Chapter 2: Taking Boys Out of the Hood: Exile as a Parenting Strategy for African American Male Youth

Neighborhood Context, Violence, and Young Black Men

Parenting Strategies in High-Risk Neighborhoods

Qualitative Research on Parenting Strategies

The Current Study: Sample and Data

Temporary Exile and Permanent Exile

Institutional Exile: Relying on the Juvenile Justice System

Taking Boys Out of the Hood: An Effective Parenting Strategy in Inner-City Neighborhoods?

Future Research

References

Notes

Chapter 3: “The Regular Routine”: Proactive Policing and Adolescent Development Among Young, Poor Black Men

Setting and Method

Living Under the Gaze of Law Enforcement

Routine Interactions Between Police and Young Men

“Going in My Pockets”: The Intimate Dance of the Stop-and-Search

Police Interactions, Adolescent Development, and Secondary Trauma

“Paperwork” and the Policing of Peer and Family Networks

Proactive Policing and Positive Adolescent Development

Discussion

References

Notes

Chapter 4: Growing Up as “Man of the House”: Adultification and Transition Into Adulthood for Young Men in Economically Disadvantaged Families

Methods

Findings

Discussion

References

Chapter 5: Fathers’ Accounts of Struggle and Growth in Early Adulthood: An Exploratory Study of Disadvantaged Men

Parenting and Men's Development and Identity in Young Adulthood

Methods

How Fatherhood Brings Struggle and Growth in Early Adulthood

Discussion and Conclusion

References

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Index

End User License Agreement

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Roy, K., & Jones, N. (2014). Theorizing alternative pathways through adulthood: Unequal social arrangements in the lives of young disadvantaged men. In K. Roy & N. Jones (Eds.), Pathways to adulthood for disconnected young men in low‐income communities. New Directions in Child and Adolescent Development, 143, 1–9.

1 Theorizing Alternative Pathways Through Adulthood: Unequal Social Arrangements in the Lives of Young Disadvantaged Men

Kevin Roy, Nikki Jones

Abstract

This chapter introduces the innovative field-based studies on disadvantaged men that are featured in this volume. Together, these studies of disadvantaged men from diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds and both urban and nonurban settings complement and extend recent discussions of emerging adulthood, which typically conceptualizes the transition to adulthood as a normative and linear process. The authors offer that the research presented here provides a more accurate rendering of the transition to adulthood for young disadvantaged men. For disadvantaged young men, the transition to adulthood is often complex and nonlinear, and features a diversity of pathways that are often overlooked in contemporary research on transitions to adulthood. The chapter ends with a call for research and theory that better reflects the precarious nature of pathways to adulthood for disadvantaged men in urban and nonurban settings. Researchers are encouraged to draw on findings from field-based studies to inform policies and practices directed at minimizing the marginalization of disadvantaged men from mainstream society. © 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.