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Gaby, Sarah – Youth & Society, 2017
Civic participation in the United States is highly unequal, resulting in a "civic engagement gap" between socioeconomic, racial, and gender groups. Variation in civic participation and the civic engagement gap remain contested, primarily as a result of inconsistent definitions and measurement issues in previous work. Using consistent…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Socioeconomic Influences, Youth, United States History
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Reinders, Heinz; Youniss, James – Applied Developmental Science, 2006
This study focused on the role of school-based required community service in promoting adolescents' prosocial behavior and intended future civic involvement when service is differentiated by types and by adolescents' perceived experience. A longitudinal data set of high school students (N = 603) was analyzed to investigate the developmental steps…
Descriptors: Adolescents, High School Students, Prosocial Behavior, Citizen Participation