Street Corner Groups and Patterns of Delinquency: A Progress Report
This is an overview of a large-scale study of "delinquent gangs" involving collaboration of the YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago and a research team under the direction of the author. Detached workers from the YMCA provide entree to the gangs for the research team and constitute a primary sour...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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1963
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The American catholic sociological review
Year: 1963, Volume: 24, Issue: 1, Pages: 13-32 |
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| Summary: | This is an overview of a large-scale study of "delinquent gangs" involving collaboration of the YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago and a research team under the direction of the author. Detached workers from the YMCA provide entree to the gangs for the research team and constitute a primary source of data concerning the boys, individually and collectively. The research is directed to the examination of recent theories concerning the impact of the social class structure on adolescent boys. Semantic differential data suggest that negro and white lower class gang and nongang boys, and middle class boys do not differ in their recognition of the moral validity and the legitimacy of some middle class values. However, gang boys evaluate illegitimate images more highly than do other boys, and their behavior is inconsistent with middle class values. An explanation for this discrepancy is sought in terms of the operation of "aleatory" factors peculiar to lower class settings and group process considerations. Further study is under way concerning these processes and various elements of competing delinquency theories. |
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| ISSN: | 2325-7881 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The American catholic sociological review
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/3708497 |