Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Youth and Violence

Abstract

Part 1 Macrosocial views of youth and violence: materialism, individualism - social attitudes of youth in Japan, Ofer Feldman normalcy and deviance - youth and the culture of violence in Brazil, Walter de Oliviera authoritarianism and agression - German youth and right-wing extremism, Detlef Oesterreich. Part 2 Violence and social organization: understanding youth street gangs - economic restructuring and the urban underclass, Joan Moore as American as apple pie - expressive and instrumental patterns in gang violence, John Hagedorn collective violence as social control - right-wing youth in Germany, Werner Bergmann varieties of violence-proneness among male youth, Meredith W. Watts and Jurgen Zinnecker. Part 3 Focus on bullying: bullying among school children in the United States, Susan P. Limber et al bullying in Japanese schools - cultural and social psychological explanations - perpetrators of school violence - a longitudinal study of bullying in German school, Jurgen Zinnecker. Part 4 Violence and citizenship: youth violence, citizenship and citizenship education in the United States, Richard G. Braungart and Margaret M. Braungart.