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100			_aArmaline, William T.
245			_a"Kids need structure"
260			_c2005
300			_ap.1124-148.
362			_aApr
520			_aThis study illuminates aspects of social life within agencies designed to house homeless adolescents through research conducted at a live-in, emergency youth shelter. The shelter provides physical necessities, safety, life skills, and a "consistent" social environment through its operation as a quasi-total institution. Social life within the shelter is characterized by constant negotiation of the curricular imposition of "structure". External boundaries become more or less permeable as a result of the degrees to which shelter residents and staff challenge or conform to rules meant to define them. Shelter curriculum may be critiqued for treating adolescent homelessness as an individual rather than social proble m, where rules simultaneously emphasize the modification of individual behaviors and serve as social control mechanisms. Shelter residents, whose poverty and homelessness are only marginally connected to personal behaviors or choices, mount (at times) conscious opposition to rules sanctioning their personal freedoms and access to the outside world. - Reproduced.
650			_aHomeless
773			_aAmerican Behavioral Scientist
909			_a64704
999			_c64704 _d64704