Mike A. Males (born 1950) is an American sociologist[1] who is senior researcher for the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice, San Francisco, and content director for YouthFacts.org, the online information service on youth issues. He worked for five years at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he taught Sociology of Men and California Youth in Transition.
Mike A. Males | |
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| Born | 1950 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, US |
| Occupation | Author, university professor, social issue researcher, writer |
| Genre | Nonfiction |
| Subject | Sociology, Youth studies |
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Males wrote Scapegoat Generation, a book that analyzes statistics to dispel myths about young people in the 1990s.
Publications
edit- The Scapegoat Generation: America's War on Adolescents (1996)
- Framing Youth: 10 Myths About The Next Generation (Common Courage Press, 1999)
- Smoked: Why Joe Camel Is Still Smiling (Common Courage Press, 1999)
- Kids and Guns (Common Courage Press, 2001)
- "The New Demons: Ordinary Teens" (Los Angeles Times, April, 2002)
- "What Do Student Drug Use Surveys Really Mean?" (Journal of School Health, January 2005)
- "Wrong Way for Teen Drivers" (Los Angeles Times, January, 2008)
- Teenage Sex and Pregnancy: Modern Myths, Unsexy Realities (Praeger, 2010)
References
edit- ^ Shawn Hubler (22 January 2006). "The Boomer Buster; Who is Mike Males, and why is he saying those awful things about people of a certain age?". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 5 November 2012. Retrieved 1 February 2011.
External links
edit- Official website
- YouthFacts.org – Mike Males directs this project.
- Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice
- "What do student drug use surveys really mean?"
- "The New Demons: Ordinary Teens"
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