scholarly journals Why Young People Obey Private Security Guards? A Scenario-Based Study

2019 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 144-160
Author(s):  
Samuel Moreira ◽  
Carla Cardoso

Private security guards (PSG) are prominent social control agents in many contexts of youth attendance. However, studies about youth’s acceptance of PSG authority are scarce. In a scenario-based survey, this study examines youngsters’ compliance with three types of PSG requests and explores factors influencing compliance, particularly instrumental and normative ones. Findings from 631 high school students from the metropolitan areas of Lisbon and Porto (Portugal) suggest that youth typically obey PSG requests, and that perceptions about the role of PSG in protecting public interests and normative judgments about these guards and their requests are important in shaping compliance. Interestingly, variations according to the type of demand are observed. Youth obey more and see their requests as more legitimate when those requests echo shared moral positions.

2017 ◽  
Vol 54 (3) ◽  
pp. 396-411 ◽  
Author(s):  
Felix Donovan

In the Australian education system, there are substantial class inequalities in educational outcomes and transitions. These inequalities persist despite increased choice and individual opportunity for young people. This article explores high school students’ experiences of class in a social context they largely believe to be a meritocracy. Specifically, it asks: how does class shape young people’s thinking and decision-making about their post-school futures? I use Bourdieu’s ‘habitus’ as a frame to understand the role of class in young people’s lives, stressing its generative and heterogeneous aspects. Drawing on qualitative-led mixed methods research, this article argues that young people have internalised the ‘doxa’ of meritocracy, agency and ambition, conceiving of themselves as individual agents in this context. However, risk and security, opportunities and constraints, are not distributed equally in a class-stratified society. Young people from working-class backgrounds more commonly imagine insecure, uncertain futures.


2020 ◽  
Vol 81 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-16
Author(s):  
Jolanta Barbara Cichowska

AbstractThe article is a continuation of research conducted in 2016–2017, whose goal was to determine expectations and needs of young people regarding forests. In this study, attention is focused on different preferences of high-school students and university students. Frequency and reasons for which high-school students visit forests have been studied. Forms of forest activities preferred by the respondents as well as familiarity of young people with the sanitary state of the woodlands, the role of biocoenosis in the ecosystem and its significance for people have been analysed. The respondents’ knowledge of rules to be followed when being in a forest, use of its resources and major threats to this ecosystem have been studied.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-56
Author(s):  
Soesi Idayanti ◽  
Moh .Taufik

Youth and young people can play a bigger role in guarding the national development path. Various problems that arise as a result of a fading sense of nationalism and nationality have occurred recently, many young people or young people have experienced disorientation, dislocation and are involved in an interest that only cares for themselves or a certain group on behalf of the people as reasons for their activities. As the basis of the state, Pancasila must be a reference for the state in facing various global challenges in the developing world. The purpose of this study was to determine how the role of Pancasila in fostering a sense of nationalism and patriotism among high school students in Tegal Regency and to find out how the role of the government in fostering a sense of nationalism among high school students today Type of research is the literature.  This research including library research because the data used is mostly secondary data in the form of documents related to Pancasila. The approach used in this research is philosophical. Fostering a sense of nationalism for high school students through Pancasila can be done from an early age, so that gradually with age it is hoped that a sense of nationalism will persist in the Indonesian nation. It can be started from the closest group, for example, family, because it is from the family that a sense of love for the country can be trained from an early age. Towards the younger generation, the State must be present as stipulated in the Preamble of the 1945 Constitution, the state protects all Indonesia's blood, including the young generation, high school children, where they are the young people of the nation who must be cared for and protected carefully.


Author(s):  
Thu Ngo ◽  
Len Unsworth ◽  
Michele Herrington

AbstractStudents’ difficulties interpreting diagrams remain a concern in science education. Research about improving diagram comprehension has included few studies of teachers’ orchestration of language and gesture in explaining diagrams—and very few in senior high schools. Research with younger students and studies of research scientists’ practice indicate the significance of the interaction of teachers’ gesture and language in explaining visualisations. The strategic deployment of such teacher-focussed authoritative explanations has been observed in facilitating progression to more complex and symbolic representations in classroom work. However, the paucity of such research in senior high school leaves open the question of how these teachers use gesture and language in managing the challenges of explaining the intricate sub-microscopic and abstract visualisations senior high school students need to negotiate. In this paper, we outline existing studies of teachers’ use of gesture and language to explain complex images in senior high school and investigate how it is managed by two biology teachers with images of different types and complexity representing the activity of certain cell components in the early phase of cell duplication. Implications are drawn for foci of further research including the role of a metalanguage describing different types of visualisations and their affordances.


1976 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 655-658 ◽  
Author(s):  
George W. Kelling ◽  
Rhea Zirkes ◽  
Deena Myerowitz

Advisers are expected to be cautious. Typical instructions in research on risky shift induce the adviser role. However, subjects may take the role of the story's hero when they can identify with the hero. It is acceptable for people to be daring when acting for themselves. This hypothesis of a switch of set predicts that subjects should consider themselves more risky than the majority of their peers, a way of expressing the value of risk, when they are similar to the story's hero. High school students rated themselves and the majority on stories dealing with situations common to their age group and on stories dealing with adult problems. Sex of hero was also manipulated. Results supported the hypothesis of a switch of set. Subjects displaced themselves more when the situation was similar to those they might face; in addition, subjects displaced themselves more when the story's hero was of their sex. No sex differences in general tendency to risky displacement were found.


2021 ◽  
pp. 082957352110347
Author(s):  
Luis Francisco Vargas-Madriz ◽  
Chiaki Konishi

Canada’s high school graduation rates are still low when compared to other members of the OECD. Previous studies have found academic involvement is associated with positive trajectories toward graduation, that social support promotes student engagement, and that school belonging could mediate this relationship. Still, little is known about the specificity of such mediation, especially in Québec. Therefore, this study examined the role of belonging as mediator of the relationship between social support and academic involvement. Participants ( N = 238) were high-school students from the Greater Montréal Area. All variables were measured by the School-Climate Questionnaire. Results from hierarchical multiple regressions indicated parental support had a direct relationship, whereas peer and teacher support had a mediated relationship by school belonging with academic involvement. Results highlight the critical role of school belonging in promoting academic involvement in relation to social support.


2021 ◽  
Vol 92 ◽  
pp. 20-29
Author(s):  
Leni Raemen ◽  
Koen Luyckx ◽  
Nina Palmeroni ◽  
Margaux Verschueren ◽  
Amarendra Gandhi ◽  
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