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Publication Date: 1996
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Community Service and Political-Moral Identity in Adolescents.
Yates, Miranda; Youniss, James
Journal of Research on Adolescence, v6 n3 p271-84 1996
Presented a theoretical framework for understanding how community service affords opportunities for stimulating identity development in adolescents. Found that service experience can stimulate reflection on society's political organization and moral order and reflection on the adolescent's role in making that order change to reflect the student's ideology. (SD)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Black Students, Citizen Participation, Community Action, Community Change, Community Involvement, Community Responsibility, Community Services, Grade 11, Moral Values, Political Attitudes, Political Socialization, Public Service, Social Action, Social Responsibility, Social Values
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Language: English
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