论转型期青年社会化中的主体性

转型期青年社会化的主体性具体表现为:反权威性、独立性、创新性、文化反哺和内控性;青年社会化主体性不断增强,与青年自身的生理、心理特点、成长的家庭环境特点和转型期社会环境的特点分析。     

佛山青年文化现状调查报告

佛山正处于一个大的转型和发展时期,佛山青年亦呈现了多元素需求的趋势。为此,团市委对佛山青年的文化现状做了一系列的调查。本文旨在通过这一调查,指出佛山青年对佛山文化的认识和要求,从而阐述了佛山青年与青年文化的一系列问题,并进一步提出了佛山青年文化最需要突破和解决的几个方面,以及就佛山青年文化建设工作作出建议。     

浅析青年政治社会化的内在心理机制与激发

社会化是个体融入社会、适应社会的必经过程。青年是社会的未来，政治社会化是青年社会化的核心。青年政治社会化是在自身的内化机制和外在教化因素的共同作用下完成的，内在的心理机制是青年政治社会化的关键。青年政治社会化的内在心理机制由认知的三个层次和四个过程体现。激发青年政治社会化内在心理机制要重视“注意”心理因素、政治认知能力、政治实践的重要作用，同时，坚持外部教育因素传播的政治信息的内容的前后一致性和刺激的持续性。     

青年“流行语”变化的文化透视

青年“流行语”与社会变革和文化潮流密切相关，是一种动态的语言现象。青年“流行语”彰显出青年的社会文化心态，是青年文化符号的表征、青年文化时尚的昭示、青年文化心理的折射，反映着青年文化变迁事实及其未来走向，具有鲜明的时代特征和文化属性。     

广州社区发展与青年参与

社区发展是我国经济发展和社会化程度提高到一定阶段的必然要求，是我国四化建设的一项基础性工程．针对广州社区现状、广州青年的特点及青年与社区的互动关系，本文提出要以社区为依托，以社区服务为主要领域，引导青年参与到社区发展中去。     

青年农民工的“文化反哺”功能

《山西青年管理干部学院学报》2007年第2期刊有《新时期青年农民工“文化反哺”现象初探》一文。文中指出，“文化反哺”即“逆向社会化”，是一种自下而上的文化传承模式。当代青年农民工已初步具备“文化反哺”的能力，并有责任通过“文化反哺”提高农村成人社会的现代社会适应能力。青年农民工“文化反哺”在社会主义新农村建设中具有重要的社会价值。     

当代青年文化热点现象述评

改革开放使青年的生活方式发生了巨大的变化,它进一步促进了青年的思想观念、社会心理等发生变化,这尤其体现在表征青年存在方式和思维向度的青年文化上.在当代,青年文化越来越呈现出纷繁复杂的发展状态,在其中3个典型的青年文化热点现象中可以发现一些带有规律性和发展趋向性的问题.     

世纪之交青年的发展与青年研究趋势断想

世纪之交，青年发展成为瞩目的焦点。由竞争、信仰、多元文化构成的和平与发展大趋势主导着青年的发展；各种生存需求要素是青年发展的先导；知识经济下的智能优势是青年发展的前提；科技进步带来的经济、社会变革影响着青年的发展。社会的全面发展进步，使青年工作社会化，一国两制下的青年研究都面临新的挑战与机遇。青年的发展，预示着中国的未来。     

青年文化工作创新探讨

随着我国“入世”,“深圳青年文化工作”与“入世后的文化需求”和“深圳青年不断更新的文化需求”等三者关系没有理顺,因而产生了制约青年文化工作发展的“四大矛盾”。为此,我们提出“五大工作对策”,供深圳等地的青年工作者参考。     

当代青年网络政治参与内容与形式调查

青年网络政治参与关系到青年的政治社会化,更关系到社会的发展与稳定。通过实证的网络观测研究方法发现,青年网络政论话题多样,并向时政信息和民生问题聚焦;青年网络政治诉求多样化,以表达政治立场观点和社会性情绪最为集中;青年网络政治参与的形式以互动和网络论证为主,具有议论性参与大大高于行动性参与的特征;青年的网上表达同时也存在情绪宣泄、无理谩骂、相互攻击等负面因素。青年网络政治参与在内容和形式上的特点,需要社会与青年双方共同努力面对。     

江泽民青年观初探

江泽民同志关于青年问题的观点主要有:青年的健康成长离不开党;青年必须高举爱国主义的伟大旗帜;当代青年的历史使命是实现中华民族的伟大复兴;同人民群众紧密结合是青年健康成长的必由之路;马克思主义政党只有赢得青年,才能赢得未来;创新的希望在青年;青年应该成为引领社会风气之先的力量;社会主义精神文明建设的关键在青年一代。     

Organizational factors that contribute to youth workers' promotion of youth voice

The term youth voice has been identified as a mechanism that helps youth who are participating in out-of-school time programs (e.g., 4-H, Boys & Girls Club, Big Brother/Big Sister) achieve successful outcomes such as improved academic and social functioning. Youth voice promotion is commonly enacted in out-of-school time programs when youth workers extend opportunities to youth to provide feedback and make key program decisions. To date, scant research has focused on organizational factors that contribute to program staff (e.g., youth workers) willingness to promote youth voice. A structural equation model using person-environment fit theory within a Positive Youth Development theory framework was constructed to test organizational factors that contribute to youth voice promotion among youth workers. Data from 569 frontline youth workers within out-of-school time programs across the United States indicated that youth workers' abilities to form positive relationships with youth, professional efficacy, and ability to make decisions in their own jobs directly predicted youth workers' endorsement of youth voice. In addition, positive relationships partially mediated the effects of professional efficacy on youth voice promotion. Implications for theory and practice are discussed.     

A qualitative exploration of suspended youth social connectedness in a community-based intervention program

Out-of-school suspension continues to disconnect an overwhelming number of economically disadvantaged ethnic minority (EDEM) youth from school—leading to out-of-school placement. Youth communities and localities may provide alternative spaces for suspended youth and create opportunities for prosocial engagement and support. The present study employed participant observation and interviews to explore suspended youth sense of social connectedness in a community-based intervention program in the United States. Findings illustrate psychosocial assets and youth sense of social connectedness emerged from relational bonds and a structural culture enforcing a nurturing and inclusive environment. A discussion on improving the capacity of community-based organizations to address the needs of suspended youth follows.     

Means-Tested Public Assistance Programs and Adolescent Political Socialization

In recent years, scholars have pointed to the politically demobilizing effects of means-tested assistance programs on recipients. In this study, we bridge the insights from policy feedback literature and adolescent political socialization research to examine how receiving means-tested programs shapes parent influence on adolescent political participation. We argue that there are differences in pathways to political participation through parent political socialization and youth internal efficacy beliefs for adolescents from households that do or do not receive means-tested assistance. Using data from a nationally representative sample of 536 Black, Latino, and White adolescents (50.8% female), we find that adolescents from means-tested assistance households report less parent political socialization and political participation. For all youth, parent political socialization predicts adolescent political participation. Internal political efficacy is a stronger predictor of political participation for youth from a non-means-tested assistance household than it is for youth from a household receiving means-tested assistance. These findings provide some evidence of differential paths to youth political participation via exposure to means-tested programs.     

Substance Use Attitudes among Urban Black Adolescents: The Role of Parent,Peer, and Cultural Factors

This study examined the influence of perceived parental, peer, and cultural factors on Black American adolescent attitudes toward substance use. One-hundred-eight Black American youth (grades 9–12) from economically disadvantaged urban neighborhoods of New York, completed self-report measures on: (a) parent-child involvement, parental supervision, and parent attitudes toward high risk behaviors; (b) peer bonds and peer attitudes toward high risk behaviors; and (c) ethnic identity, parental racial socialization, and extended family support. Youth disapproval of substance use was positively associated with higher perceived levels of peer and parental disapproval of high risk behaviors, parental supervision, and ethnic identity. Youth who reported parental messages about racial discrimination without balanced parental messages about racial pride and racial equality were more likely to approve substance use. Assistant Professor in the Department of Preventive Medicine and Community Health, State University of New York Downstate Medical Center. Her research interests include socio-cultural factors in the prevention of youth substance use, sexual risk, and violence. Director, Center for Ethics Education and Marie Ward Doty Professor of Psychology at Fordham University. Current research interests include research ethics with vulnerable populations, including children and adolescents.     

The Psychological World of the Gay Teenager:Social Change,Narrative, and “Normality”

This paper examines the application of concepts of normal adolescence pioneered by Offer and colleagues to the study of gay and lesbian youth. Adolescent development among this population demonstrates remarkable historical variability along the lines of generation-cohort, revealing the utility of a life-course approach to the study of normal adolescence. Concepts of normal adolescence appear to shift with changing narratives of identity for sexual minority youth. We contrast two narratives of gay youth identity development that have emerged since the inception of substantive research programs on gay adolescence: (1) the narrative of struggle and success that came to dominate the literature in the 1980s and 1990s and (2) the narrative of emancipation that has emerged from the work of Savin-Williams and others who argue for a recognition of the diversity of adolescent development for this population. In relating this contrast to Offer’s seminal contributions to the study of adolescence, we suggest that the most normative feature of human development, particularly during adolescence, is its connection to discourses of identity through the formation of personal narratives that anchor the life course and provide meaning to conceptions of self-development. The example of shifting narratives of gay youth identity development is meant to exemplify this characteristic feature of human development. William Rainey Harper Professor of Social Sciences, The College, the Departments of Comparative Human Development, Psychology, Psychiatry and the Committee on Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities, The University of Chicago. For nearly two decades he collaborated with Dan Offer as the director of the University’s component of the Adolescence Training grant shared jointly with Michael Reese Hospital and Directed by Dan Offer. His recent work focuses on the interplay of history and social change in the study of lives over time. Advanced doctoral student in the Department of Comparative Human Development. His work examines the cultural psychology of adolescence and emerging adulthood, with a focus on identity and narrative. His earlier work with former student of Dan Offer, Maryse Richards, focused on the study of ethnicity, context, and normal adolescence. Most recently, he has been studying culture and normal adolescent development among Israeli and Palestinian youth. In 2007 he will be appointed an Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of California-Santa Cruz.     

Youth-Guided Youth Engagement: Participatory Action Research (PAR) With High-Risk,Marginalized Youth

Engaging youth who live with high-risk, marginalized conditions presents a significant challenge in our society, considering the prevalence of disconnect and distrust they often experience within their social environments/systems. Yet, meaningful youth engagement is a key concept not only for youth development, but also for a systems change to more effectively support high-risk youth and families. This article presents a framework of youth engagement developed over 9 months, using participatory action research (PAR) with 16 youth leaders in a community-based research team. Although this framework has incorporated the youth leaders’ lived experiences, talents, and voices, positive youth development (PYD) and social justice youth development (SJYD) have theoretically contextualized our research. Youth leaders guided the framework's development, including the identification of key themes/dimensions, definitions, and practical examples. The framework's three components—“Basis” (philosophy and principles), “What” (goals/outcomes), and “How” (actions/processes/pathways to change)—are supported by nine themes described in this article.     

Homeless Youth Seeking Health and Life-Meaning Through Popular Culture and the Arts

This pilot study demonstrates the roles of popular culture, media and the arts in the health and self-esteem of homeless youth. Reflecting focus group findings from a representative sample of street and sheltered youth, this article provides a qualitative assessment of what they advocated as an effective intervention that would promote the receipt of health services within their vulnerable community. Unlike alienating disease models where adverse health behaviors and outcomes determine intervention success or failure, a culturally-sensitive approach which provided skills mentoring and engaged the youth as health advocates seemed likely to produce important recovery incentives and enhanced health outcomes.     

Youth Work in Croatia: Collecting Pieces for a Mosaic

This article explores the historical development of youth work in Croatia. By drawing from available data and personal experience, we describe three key phases of youth work development in a post-conflict country: (a) the period of the early 1990s as a “direct peace building" youth work; (b) the rise of nonformal education during the mid and late 1990s; and (c) the growth of a networked youth sector and its focus on youth policy advocacy starting in 2000. In addition, we refer to today's context, particularly because of its project-management orientation. Such categorization highlights various practices that we consider to represent youth work in a specific and contested national framework. Work with young people with fewer opportunities is being presented as a case, building on our observation that contemporary youth work continues to be embedded in civil society development and nonformal education, facing challenges of funding-driven discourse and unsystematic support.     

CI战略与高校共青团工作

CI战略作为企业的形象识别标志,是一个科学的系统形象工程。高校共青团同样关注青年人文与价值的构建,重视以人为本和人力资源开发,注意利用宣传手段达到树立团组织良好形象的目的。高校共青团工作导入CI战略,对于拓展团工作的思维,扩宽团工作的视野,具有重要的实践意义。