Adolescence in Urban India Cultural Construction in a Society in Transition /

• Main Author: Kapadia, Shagufa (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New Delhi : Springer India : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Subjects: Psychology.; Educational psychology.; Education > Psychology.; Childhood.; Adolescence.; Social groups.; Developmental psychology.; Developmental Psychology.; Childhood, Adolescence and Society.; Educational Psychology.

Set against the backdrop of social change and globalization, this book presents the contents and contours of adolescence in contemporary urban India. Based on the trends derived from a series of mixed-method studies with adolescent girls and boys, and parents from urban upper middle class families,...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1 Culture, Context and Development
• Chapter 2 Adolescence: A Sociocultural Construction.- Chapter 3 Adolescence, the Stage; Adolescent, the Person.- Chapter 4 Parent-Adolescent Relationship: A Circle of Care, Respect, and Faith .- Chapter 5 Uncertainties, Insecurities, and Worries: The Bane of Globalization.- Chapter 6 Conclusions, Reflections, and Implications
• Appendices.