Racial/ethnic differences in adolescent smoking suggest that different factors may motivate smoking among various racial/ethnic groups. This study examined relations among race/ethnicity, self-generated smoking outcome expectancies, and smoking status. Our findings noted that current smoking was highest among Hispanics, whereas African Americans and Asians were least likely to ever smoke. Afric...

The article is devoted to the study of issue ethnic and civic identity student youth, education a culture interethnic relations in an educational institution. presents analysis literature on problem under consideration, considers state approaches solving issues ethnicity citizenship. relevance due reasons that require timely response changes taking place modern multi-ethnic space. multinational...

The five articles in this special section examine personality and racial/ethnic relations from the perspective of Mischel and Shoda's Cognitive-Affective Personality System (CAPS) Theory. In this introductory piece, we first provide a primer on CAPS theory. In particular, we try to highlight the role that context plays in the construction and manifestation of personality as well as the dynamic ...

Beginning with the seminal work of Robert Park (1950), there have been numerous efforts to develop sociological theories to classify and explain the variations in ethnic (and racial’) inequality overtime and space. Yet it is apparent even to the novice that there is no single paradigm that dominates the field. Research findings accumulate, but rarely lead to systematic and cumulative empirical ...