H. Marshall et al., Young people's accounts of personal relationships in a multi-cultural eastLondon environment: Questions of community, diversity and inequality, J COMM APPL, 9(2), 1999, pp. 155-171
A thematic decomposition of group interviews conducted with 176 young peopl
e from Last London on the topic of personal relationships is presented. The
focus of the analysis is on the role played by cultural and community fact
ors on the form of personal relationships, and particular emphasis is given
to the power-related issues of gender and ethnicity. Five broad themes are
discussed, entitled 'An imagined community: Harmonious diversity', 'multic
ulturalism and racism', 'Asian communities and families', 'the inter-relati
onship of gender with ethnicity' and 'the role of religion in shaping relat
ionships'. The findings are discussed in relation to inadequacies with abst
ract and generalized psychological models that fail to grasp the specificit
ies of community relations. Copyright (C) 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.