Publications

Publication details [#3864]

Goodwin, Marjorie Harness. 1982. Processes of dispute management among urban black children. African Identities 9 : 76–96.

Annotation

An investigation into the forms and functions of alternative dispute procedures and the distinctively operating cultures that account for them among urban black working-class children. It is found that children strategically manage the social organization of a dispute through the selection of particular argument formats, thus displaying a range of communicative competencies and collaborating in performing highly orderly negotiations of power.