Health Sciences 2700A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Moral Panic, Sexual Script Theory, Health Promotion
8 Feb 2018
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Male youth street culture: pavis and cunningham- burley (1999) Health science 2700 health issues in childhood and adolescence ii: growing concern about youth, especially young men, and how they spend their leisure time i. e. drinking, smoking, doing drugs, hanging out, nuisance. These researchers wanted to understand the meanings and motivations of the young people on the streets. It allows them to gain insight into the diverse, shifting, and value-lade(cid:374) (cid:272)o(cid:374)te(cid:454)t i(cid:374) (cid:449)hi(cid:272)h the (cid:455)ouths(cid:859) health-related behaviour occurs. They demonstrate important links between their street culture and their health. Methodology i. e. includes the role of immediate and broader socio-economic and psychological factors. Part of a larger mixed methods (qualitative and quantitative) project that followed 106 male youth from the completion of high school into post-secondary. They narrowed their focus for subsequent analysis to the issue of leisure time: hanging out is when they were most likely to smoke, drink and experiment with drugs.
