Health Sciences 2700A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Boogie 2Nite, Ethnography, Health Promotion
27 Oct 2016
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Growing concern about youth, especially young men, and how they spend their leisure time: e. g. drinking, smoking, doing drugs, hanging out, nuisance. The media attention and piecemeal policy responses reflect the moral panic that surrounds these young people and their behaviour. These researchers wanted to understand the meanings and motivations of the young people on the streets. Allows them to gain insight into the diverse, shifting, and value-laden contexts in which the youths" health-related behaviour occurs. They demonstrate important links between their street culture and their health: e. g. includes the role of immediate and broader socio-economic and psychological factors. Part of a larger mixed methods (qualitative + 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. A description of a people or ethnic group .
