Ethnicity and Causal Mechanisms
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Ethnicity and Causal Mechanisms

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Ethnicity and Causal Mechanisms

About this book

Research clearly indicates that ethnic groups differ significantly on levels of mental and physical health, antisocial behavior, and educational attainment. This book explains these variations among ethnic groups with respect to their psychological and social functioning and tests competing hypotheses about the mechanisms that might cause the functioning to be better, worse, or different in pattern from other groups. Attention is paid to educational attainments, antisocial behavior, schizophrenia and suicide, and to the complex and changing patterns of ethnic identity. The book also focuses on evidence on risk and protective factors that is used systematically to ask whether such factors might account for the differences in both migration histories and ethnic mixture. It concludes with a discussion of the multiple meanings of ethnicity, the major variations among ethnic groups, and the policy implications of the findings discussed in the book.

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Information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2005
Print ISBN
9780521849937
eBook ISBN
9781139142236
Topic
Psychology
Subtopic
Social Psychology
Index
Psychology

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Contributors
  6. Foreword
  7. Preface
  8. 1 Natural Experiments, Causal Influences, and Policy Development
  9. 2 Growing Up Ethnic in the United Kingdom and the United States: Comparative Contexts for Youth Development
  10. 3 The Multiple Facets of Ethnicity
  11. 4 Educational Attainments: Ethnic Differences in the United Kingdom
  12. 5 Race and Ethnic Inequality in Educational Attainment in the United States
  13. 6 Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Crime and Delinquency in the United States
  14. 7 Explaining Ethnic Variations in Crime and Antisocial Behavior in the United Kingdom
  15. 8 Cultural Differences in the Effects of Physical Punishment
  16. 9 Ethnicity and Mental Health: The Example of Schizophrenia in the African-Caribbean Population in Europe
  17. 10 Ethnic Variations in Youth Suicide
  18. 11 Ethnicity and Intergenerational Identities and Adaptations in Britain: The Socio-Political Context
  19. 12 Assimilation, Dissimilation, and Ethnic Identities: The Experience of Children of Immigrants in the United States
  20. 13 Deciphering Ethnicity: Reflections on Research Opportunities
  21. Author Index
  22. Subject Index