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¶ … children's conceptualization of race and experiences with racial discrimination" details a research study regarding the awareness and impact of racism on young children. The researchers conducted a series of interview with children from seven to 12 years old in which one of the most crucial criteria was determining whether or not the youths could define racism themselves. The children were either black, Hispanic or white; the white children served as a control (of sorts) since the rate of incidence of their experience of racial discrimination was thought to be less than those of the aforementioned historical minority groups. The principle effect of racism studied was self-esteem, which was measured in the children via the Rosenberg Scale.
The results demonstrated that black children were more aware of racism than the other two groups of children, due to the fact that they could define the term in measurable ways through...
The effects of racism on self-esteem revealed that there was a significant correlation between the two -- specifically that discrimination based on race was a contributing factor to low self-esteem. Results also indicated that Hispanic children experienced the greatest amounts of racism.
Rose Galvin's study, "Researching the disabled identity: contextualizing the identity transformations which accompany the onset of impairment" attempted to determine in what ways people's perceptions of themselves, and the way in which they were perceived by others, changed after a physical debilitation. Research was conducted in the form of narratives, utilizing the grounded theory approach, collected from the disabled in four countries. Some of the materials were unsolicited; the author also made use of autobiographical literature and phone conversations to gather data. The principle difference…
Poverty Issues in Education: Effects on School-Age Children Poverty and its effects on school age children Poverty Issues in Education Effects on School-Age Children The child who lives in poverty experiences both challenges and barriers that other children who are not in these 'at risk' will never face. Presently there are number of young children in the U.S. that are growing up in families living in poverty or near poverty (44%). The term 'at-risk'
One example of this is Lyle's conception of family life. His father punished him. This punishment was based upon a decontextualized biblical passage, and claimed to be the result of fatherly love. Hence Lloyd's conception of fatherly love was skewed from a very early age. For Lyle, the "truth" behind punishment is love. His anger and pain, as suppressed elements, fuel this conception, and Lyle is unable to break
The feminist nature of the novel is established earlier in the novel, wherein the novel begins with the following passage: Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others, they sail forever on the horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is
Administration for Children & Families of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Children's well-being has become an issue of crucial concern not only in the United States but also across the world. Homelessness, poverty, racism, and violence shape the childhood experiences of millions of youth and children. Child welfare advocates and grass root activists have been working tirelessly to put the concerns of youth and children on the public
Immigrant Experience And Its Psychological Toll Information Competency & Library Use San Francisco, CA The theoretical framework centers of the immigrant experience and how it changes the individual while navigating his or her new society. The topic statement seeks to explore these phenomena by focusing on the psychological experience and its relationship to violence and economics. The idea that the action of immigrating is profoundly disruptive on ideas of self-worth, identity and economic
Self-Conception Social psychology conceptualization of self Simply put, self-concept is the way one thinks about what they are and how they evaluate themselves. When one is referred to as aware of self it means that they have concept of self. There are however varied definitions of self-concept especially in regard the relation with self-esteem. Baumeister (1999) indicates that the definition of self is what a person believes about "himself or herself, including