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- Values, Religion, and Culture in Adolescent Development
- Series page
- Values, Religion, and Culture in Adolescent Development
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Part One Theoretical Perspectives on Values, Religion, and Adolescent Development in Cultural Context
- Part Two Universal and Culture-specific Functions of Adolescent Values and Religion
- 4 Values and Religion in Adolescent Development
- 5 Religion and Life Satisfaction of Young Persons around the World
- 6 Indonesian Muslim Adolescents and the Ecology of Religion
- 7 Peer Groups as a Crucible of Positive Value Development in a Global World
- 8 Civic Development in Relational Perspective
- Part Three Impact of Values and Religion on Adolescent Adjustment in Times of Social Change
- Part Four Socialization Processes of Values and Religion in Adolescent Development
- Index
7 - Peer Groups as a Crucible of Positive Value Development in a Global World
from Part Two - Universal and Culture-specific Functions of Adolescent Values and Religion
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 September 2012
- Values, Religion, and Culture in Adolescent Development
- Series page
- Values, Religion, and Culture in Adolescent Development
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Part One Theoretical Perspectives on Values, Religion, and Adolescent Development in Cultural Context
- Part Two Universal and Culture-specific Functions of Adolescent Values and Religion
- 4 Values and Religion in Adolescent Development
- 5 Religion and Life Satisfaction of Young Persons around the World
- 6 Indonesian Muslim Adolescents and the Ecology of Religion
- 7 Peer Groups as a Crucible of Positive Value Development in a Global World
- 8 Civic Development in Relational Perspective
- Part Three Impact of Values and Religion on Adolescent Adjustment in Times of Social Change
- Part Four Socialization Processes of Values and Religion in Adolescent Development
- Index
Summary
Globalization is increasing the challenges adolescents face in developing coherent prosocial values. In many societies, traditional systems of value transmission are eroding and youth are exposed to more diverse reference groups and cultural belief systems. This chapter examines the developmental processes through which youth work together with peers to formulate values in the face of these challenges. We focus on organized youth programs as a valuable arena to understand and support these processes. Using qualitative longitudinal data from 11 culturally diverse, high quality programs, we identified two interlinked peer processes of value work. The first process entailed youth actively opening themselves up to moral realities beyond their own. This occurred through listening, “talking out,” and coming to empathize with the personal experiences of others. The second process involved collective analysis. Youth discussed each other’s stories; they compared, challenged, and critiqued the basis for different value positions.
Piaget theorized that youth develop moral principles through interactions with peers. This chapter provides grounded theory on how similar processes function in a global world. Under favorable conditions, peers play powerful roles assisting youth’s efforts to synthesize hybrid value perspectives. They pool their collective experiences to analyze and wrestle with the vexing value issues of a pluralistic world. The chapter concludes with a review of how similar and differing processes of value development may be enacted across global cultural contexts.
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- Values, Religion, and Culture in Adolescent Development , pp. 164 - 187Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2012
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