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SOCIAL CAPITAL NETWORKS OF INSTITUTIONAL AGENTS AND THE
EMPOWERMENT OF AFRICAN AMERICAN YOUTH
by
Brandon Edward Gamble
____________________________________________________________________
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE ROSSIER SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Fulfillment of the
Requirements of the Degree
DOCTOR OF EDUCATION
August 2007
Copyright 2007 Brandon Edward Gamble
Object Description
| Title | Social capital networks of institutional agents and the empowerment of African American youth |
| Author | Gamble, Brandon Edward |
| Author email | bgamble@usc.edu |
| Degree | Doctor of Education |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Education (Psychology & Technology) |
| School | Rossier School of Education |
| Date defended/completed | 2007-06-01 |
| Date submitted | 2007 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2007-08-01 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Baca, Reynaldo |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Harabayashi, Kimberly Martin, Brandon E. |
| Abstract | This is a study of community-based program leaders who support African American youth in their efforts to attain academic success. A sociological concept, "social capital" (Coleman, 1988, 1990; Putnam, 2000, Lin, 1999, 2001) was applied in an analysis of how program leaders utilize their social capital networks to empower low-status and minority youth. Successful interventions programs that empower youth help the youth learn to decode the systems they live within as well as impart information necessary for young people to learn how to manage life in multiple worlds (Carter, 2005; Stanton-Salazar, 1997, 2001). The name generator, position generator, and resource generator are the proposed measures of social capital (Flap, Snijders, Völker, & van der Gaag, 2003), as well as ethnographic interview (Spradley, 1979) techniques for more detailed analysis of the processes of empowerment (Bryant-Soloman, 1976, Ladson-Billings & Tate, 1995, & Sadan, 2004).; Qualitative and quantitative methodologies from social network analysis in this case study revels the network and help seeking orientations of community-based programs leaders of intervention programs that focus on the empowerment of African American and other minority youth. Intensive interviews with the leaders of the African Male Achievers Network and Kappa League programs provide insight into the types relationships that are particularly helpful in providing critical support to youth as well as the ways these programs leaders approach relationship building and whether a particular help-seeking orientation influences their access to social capital. The research questions for this study were as follows: 1) How has the program leaders' personal history of empowerment impacted the structure of the programs? 2) Do program leaders understand their role relative to the help-seeking and network orientations? Also, have they identified variations in network relationships that they use as indicators of potential success in their program? 3) Does the program leaders' accessible social capital play a role in efforts to engage in mobilization of that capital? 4) How is cyber technology used in the development of network connections for enhancing the social capital of the program leaders? 5) Does a program leader's individual perceptions of length of contact with a person, age, race, status, and gender manifest in their leaders' implementation of institutional agency?; The findings from the study indicate that organizational structure and Black leadership and/or traditional African American resistance forms (i.e. church, fraternal, and lived experience) are important to the success of these programs. Positive help-seeking orientation in regards to the program leader's views of stress management for self and the types of relationships are chosen by the program leaders are important to the overall impact of their program leaders network contacts. Clearly articulated male/female relationships are important for the overall success ofinterventions designed to support African American males. Issues of generational connection, race, status, and gender are accounted for by these leaders of African American youth. |
| Keyword | African American; empowerment; social capital; leadership |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m741 |
| Rights | Gamble, Brandon Edward |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/ |
| Filename | etd-Gamble-20070801 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume40/etd-Gamble-20070801.pdf |
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| Full text | SOCIAL CAPITAL NETWORKS OF INSTITUTIONAL AGENTS AND THE EMPOWERMENT OF AFRICAN AMERICAN YOUTH by Brandon Edward Gamble ____________________________________________________________________ A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE ROSSIER SCHOOL OF EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Fulfillment of the Requirements of the Degree DOCTOR OF EDUCATION August 2007 Copyright 2007 Brandon Edward Gamble |
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