Community Service and Social Responsibility in Youth

by James E. Youniss and Miranda Yates

James Youniss and Miranda Yates present a sophisticated analysis of community service's beneficial effects on adolescents' political and moral identity.

Using a case study from a predominantly Black, urban high school in Washington, D.C., Youniss and Yates build on the insights of Erik Erikson on the social and historical nature of identity development. They show that service at a soup kitchen as part of a course on social justice gives youth...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226964825
• ISBN13: 9780226964829
• Release Date: August 1997
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 193 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.3"