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Youth civic development: Theorizing a domain with evidence from different cultural contexts
Author(s) -
Flanagan Constance A.,
Martínez M. Loreto,
Cumsille Patricio,
Ngomane Tsakani
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
new directions for child and adolescent development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.628
H-Index - 59
eISSN - 1534-8687
pISSN - 1520-3247
DOI - 10.1002/cd.313
Subject(s) - ethnic group , politics , sociology , caste , civic engagement , gender studies , political science , anthropology , law
The authors use examples of youth civic engagement from Chile, South Africa, Central/Eastern Europe, and the United States—and also emphasize diversities among youth from different subgroups within countries—to illustrate common elements of the civic domain of youth development. These include the primacy of collective activity for forming political identities and ideas and the greater heterogeneity of civic compared to other discretionary activities, the groupways or accumulated opportunities for acting due to the groups (social class, gender, ethnic, caste, etc.) to which a young person belongs, and the role of mediating institutions (schools, community‐based organizations, etc.) as spaces where youths' actions contribute to political stability and change. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.