Department of Human Ecology, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA.
Am J Community Psychol. 2018 Jun;61(3-4):472-487. doi: 10.1002/ajcp.12244. Epub 2018 Apr 11.
Increasing economic insecurity faced by older youth in rural America presents a crisis of social reproduction for disconnected youth in these areas. Increasingly community based youth serving organizations (CBYSOs) are recognizing and responding to the social reproduction needs of this particularly vulnerable youth population. Such responses are often hidden from funders, government agencies, and community residents. Yet these institutions play an important substitution function for disconnected youth and provide critical social support and social leverage for this population. Based on case studies of three CBYSOs in the San Joaquin Valley of California, this article explores how and why CBYSOs play a substitution function for disconnected youth in rural communities. It is the argument of this article that the social reproduction work of CBYSOs is undertaken with a ethic of care that may have the capacity to transform the political, social, and economic contexts that face this marginalized youth population.
美国农村地区的大龄青年面临着经济保障日益减少的问题，这对这些地区与社会脱节的青年来说是一场社会再生产的危机。越来越多的社区青少年服务组织（CBYSO）开始认识到并回应这一特别脆弱青年群体的社会再生产需求。这些回应往往不为资助者、政府机构和社区居民所了解。然而，这些机构对与社会脱节的青年起到了重要的替代作用，为这一人群提供了关键的社会支持和社会影响力。本文通过对加利福尼亚州圣华金谷的三个 CBYSO 的案例研究，探讨了 CBYSO 如何以及为何在农村社区为与社会脱节的青年发挥替代作用。本文认为，CBYSO 的社会再生产工作是带着关怀伦理进行的，这种关怀伦理有可能改变面临这一边缘化青年群体的政治、社会和经济环境。
