zhi yang: word cited

1 G. Genevieve Patthey-Chavez. “High School as an Arena for Cultural Conflict and Acculturation for Latino Angelinos” Anthropology & Education Quarterly, Vol. 24, No. 1 (Mar., 1993), pp. 33-60

SUMMARY OF ARTICLE: the article goes over the cultural conflict between the Latino and the Anglo in high school. It concludes that mutual accommodation is necessary to solve this conflict.

RELEVANCE TO ARGUMENT: the article implies that cultural conflict is associated with the school violence. Cultural conflict is a down-side of the cultural diversity. That is to say, cultural diversity is the source of the school violence.

2. Motoko Akiba, Gerald K. LeTendre, David P. Baker and Brian Goesling. American Educational Research Journal, Vol. 39, No. 4 (Winter, 2002), pp. 829-853

SUMMARY OF ARTICLE: the article points out that school violence are the fault of the education system by exploring school violence among 37 nations. It concludes that one possible way to alleviate the school violence is to equalize the quality of the education.

RELEVANCE TO ARGUMENT: the position the article takes is opposite to mine. I’ll argue in my article that cultural diversity is responsible for the school violence, but not the educational system.

3. A. Troy Adams. “The Status of School Discipline and Violence ” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 567, School Violence (Jan., 2000), pp. 140-156

SUMMARY OF ARTICLE: the article explains the development of the school violence. It concludes that an orderly school environment can reduce school violence.

RELEVANCE TO ARGUMENT: the article provides the proof of the development of the school violence, which can eventually lead to cause of the school violence: cultural diversity.

4. Catherine Cornbleth. “Images of America: What Youth "Do" Know about the United States ” American Educational Research Journal, Vol. 39, No. 2, Education and Democracy (Summer, 2002), pp. 519-552

SUMMARY OF ARTICLE: the article reveals the youth’s image of the America: diversity in culture, race and ethnicity. The article also goes in detail about the tension between the major group and the minor.

RELEVANCE TO ARGUMENT: the article provides the clues that cultural diversity can cause social disorder, including the school violence.

5. Ramlow, Todd R. “Bad Boys: Abstractions of Difference and the Politics of Youth "Deviance" A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies - Volume 9, Number 1-2, 2003, pp. 107-132 – Article

SUMMARY OF ARTICLE: the article focus on how the social factors, like culture, turns the teenagers into killers.

RELEVANCE TO ARGUMENT: the article can prove that culture is strongly associated with the school violence.

6 David C. Anderson. “Curriculum, Culture, and Community: The Challenge of School Violence” Crime and Justice, Vol. 24, Youth Violence (1998), pp. 317-363

SUMMARY OF ARTICLE: the articles explores different solutions to reduce school violence but emphasize school culture is the key to the solution.

RELEVANCE TO ARGUMENT: The article sheds some light into the ultimate solution of the school violence in my article, which is to achieve culture harmony.

7 Stuart Henry. “What Is School Violence? An Integrated Definition”

Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 567, School Violence (Jan., 2000), pp. 16-29

SUMMARY OF ARTICLE: the article is dedicated to different types of school violence and the cause of the school violence.

RELEVANCE TO ARGUMENT: the example of different types of school violence in the article supports my claim cultural diversity is the source of the school violence.

8. Cybelle Fox and David J. Harding. “School Shootings as Organizational Deviance” Sociology of Education, Vol. 78, No. 1 (Jan., 2005), pp. 69-97

SUMMARY OF ARTICLE: The article blame the school shooting to the organizational deviance, such as organizational culture and environment.

RELEVANCE TO ARGUMENT: the data of school violence in the article is very useful to demonstrate that school violence is lightly related to the educational system.

9. Douglas E. Thompkins. “School Violence: Gangs and a Culture of Fear" Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 567, School Violence (Jan., 2000), pp. 54-71

SUMMARY OF ARTICLE: the article analyzes the fear of school violence and review a program reducing school violence.

SUMMARY OF ARTICLE: the program mentioned in the article to reduce school violence is the perfect solution to cultural conflict in school violence in my article.

10 Domenico Parisi, Federico Cecconi and Francesco Natale. “Cultural Change in Spatial Environments: The Role of Cultural Assimilation and Internal Changes in Cultures” Law & Society Review, Vol. 34, No. 3 (2000), pp. 521-565

SUMMARY OF ARTICLE: The articles analyze the positive and negative side of the cultural diversity.

SUMMARY OF ARTICLE: the article gives proof that cultural diversity can produce conflicts between different group, which is an example of school violence.