How Black Disadvantaged Adolescents Socially Construct Reality

By Loretta J. Brunious

How Black Disadvantaged Adolescents Socially Construct Reality
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In a pilot study applying Berger and Luckmann's social construction of reality framework, Brunious (Loyola U., Chicago) elicits perceptions about school, popular culture, and mass media from 20 Chicago inner- city black teens. Refuting the still prevalent myth that poor African- American youth suffe