Young people's accounts of personal relationships in a multi-cultural East London environment: questions of community, diversity and inequality
✍ Scribed by Harriette Marshall; Paul Stenner; Helen Lee
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 138 KB
- Volume
- 9
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1052-9284
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✦ Synopsis
A thematic decomposition of group interviews conducted with 176 young people from East London on the topic of personal relationships is presented. The focus of the analysis is on the role played by cultural and community factors on the form of personal relationships, and particular emphasis is given to the power-related issues of gender and ethnicity. Five broad themes are discussed, entitled An imagined community: Harmonious diversity', multiculturalism and racism', Asian communities and families', the inter-relationship of gender with ethnicity' and `the role of religion in shaping relationships'. The ®ndings are discussed in relation to inadequacies with abstract and generalized psychological models that fail to grasp the speci®cities of community relations.