Most of the databases and library catalogs use words that are part of a "controlled vocabulary."
A controlled vocabulary is a carefully selected list of words and phrases used to tag information such as a document, article or other unit of information, in order to more easily retrieve your research topic in a search.
Based upon some of the themes and issues contained in The Other Wes Moore, here are some suggested search terms and subject headings. This is not an exhaustive list.
Expectations: Expectations, Parental Expectation, Teacher Expectations, Role Expectations, Self-Fulfilling Prophecies, Self-Efficacy, Hope, World View
Motivation: Motivation, Change, Readiness to Change, Aspirations, Agency, Goals, Social Motivation, Volition, Commitment, Goal Setting, Struggle, Opportunity, Diligence, Passion
Poverty: Poverty, Poverty Areas, Income, Disadvantaged, Lower Income Level, Socioeconomics, Socioeconomic Status, Social Class, Cultural Deprivation, Underprivileged, Child Welfare
Opportunity: Opportunity, Luck, Advantage, Privilege
Value of Education: Education, Higher Education, Postsecondary Education, Education Social Aspects, Education Economic Aspects, First-generation college students, Minorities Education, College, Colleges, University, Universities, Learning, Education Social Benefits, Employment, College Students, College Graduates
Grief: Grief, Bereavement, Death and Dying, Regret, Separation, Suffering, Traumatic Loss, Loss
Urban Life: Urban, Urban Sociology, Cities, Neighborhoods, Housing, Residential Mobility
Violence: Violence, Violence United States, Murder, Violent Crime, Exposure to Violence, Antisocial Behavior,
Race: Race, Minorities, Race Relations, Race Discrimination, Race Social Aspects
Prisons: Prisons United States, Prisoners United States, Prisoners, Prisons, Prisoners Education, Criminals, Criminals Rehabilitation, Prison-industrial complex
Military: Military, Military Enlistment, Military Training, Military Personnel, Military Sociology, Military Education
Community Support: Community, Community Development
Social Justice: Social Justice, Social Justice United States, Race Relations, Discrimination, Activism, Social Conditions
Family Support: Family, Family Systems, Parenting, Family Crises, Family Relations, Home Environment, Nurture, Nurturance, Nurturing, Needs, Caring
Peer Support: Peer Support, Peer Relations, Peers, Peer Pressure, Friendship, Interpersonal Influences, Influences
These are some resources that may help with further understanding and research of themes covered in the book.
In your reading, you may discover several themes, issues and discussion points. Some ideas, themes and issues may include:
Expectations; Motivation; Aspirations; Poverty; Grief; Loss; Opportunity; Urban Life; Value of Education; Military; Prisons; Socioeconomics; Self-Fulfilling Prophecy; Community, Peer and Family Support; Race; Discrimination; Social Justice; Child Welfare; Crime Prevention; Violence
And many more
Expectations, Self-Fulfilling Prophecies, and Hope
Duckworth, Angela. Grit: The Power of Passion and Perserverance. New York: Scribner. 2016.
3rd Floor BF637.S8 D693 2016
Kernis, Michael H. Efficacy, Agency, and Self-Esteem. New York: Plenum Press, 1995. Print.
3rd Floor BF697.5.S46 E33 1995
Oettingen, Gabriele. Rethinking Positive Thinking : Inside the New Science of Motivation . New York: Current, 2014. Print.
3rd Floor BF698.35.O57 O38 2014
Peterson, Alan R. Hope in Health: The Socio-Politics of Optimism. Houndsmills, Hampshire; New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2015. Online.
Solnit, Rebecca. Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities. Chicago: Haymarket Books. 2016. Print.
3rd Floor HN18 .S653 2016
Motivation, Change, Aspirations, Goals
Covey, Stephen R. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change. New York: Simon & Schuster. 2013. Print.
3rd Floor BF637.S8 C68 2013
Heath, Chip & Heath, Dan. Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard. New York: Broadway Books. 2010. Print
3rd Floor BF637.C4 H43 2010
Tough, Paul. How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity and the Hidden Power of Character. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 2012. Print
3rd Floor LB1139.25 .T68 2012
Wong, Roderick. Motivation: A Biobehavioural Approach. Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press. 2000. Print
3rd Floor BF503 .W665 2000
Poverty and Socioeconomic Status
Chivers, David. Success, Survive or Escape: Aspirations and Poverty Traps.Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, November 2017, Vol.143, pp.116-132. Online
Revallion, Martin. The Economics of Poverty: History, Measurement and Policy. New York: Oxford UP. 2016. Print
3rd Floor HC79.P6 .R3798 2016
Opportunity, Luck, and Advantage
Card, Claudia. The Unnatural Lottery: Character and Moral Luck. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1996. Print.
3rd Floor BJ 1531 .C28 1996
Landsman, Klaas., and van Wolde, Ellen. The Challenge of Chance A Multidisciplinary Approach from Science and the Humanities. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016. Online.
Navin, Mark. “Luck and Oppression.” Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 14.5 (2011): 533–547. Online.
Value of Education
Daily, Mary C & Bengali, Leila. "Is it Still Worth Going to College?" FRBSF Economic Letter. 2014. Online.
Green, Andy. The Crisis for Young People: Generational Inequalities in Education, Work, Housing and Welfare. Cham: Springer International. 2017. Online
Guthrie, James W. Encyclopedia of Education. 2nd ed. New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 2003. Print and Online.
Print: Reference 1st Floor LB 15 .E47 2003
Livingstone, D. W., editor.; Guile, David, editor. The Knowledge Economy and Lifelong Learning: A Critical Reader. Rotterdam, Boston: Sense Publishers. 2012. Online
McMahon, Walter M. Higher Learning, Greater Good: The Private and Social Benefits of Higher Education. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2009. Print
3rd Floor LB2324 .M39 2009
Day, Jennifer Cheeseman and Newburger, Eric C. The Big Payoff: Educational Attainment and Synthetic Estimates of Work-Life Earnings. Current Population Reports. US Census Bureau. 2002. Online.
Grief, Loss and Suffering
Berns, Nancy. Closure The Rush to End Grief and What It Costs Us . Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2011. Print.
3rd Floor BF 575.D35 B47 2011
Hooyman, Nancy R., and Kramer, Betty J. Living through Loss : Interventions Across the Life Span. New York: Columbia University Press, 2006. Print and Online.
Print: 3rd Floor BF575.G7 H66 2006
Loss, Grief & Care. Journal. Online.
Salloum, Alison. Grief and Trauma in Children: An Evidence-Based Treatment Manual. New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2015. Online.
Urban Life and Crime
Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice. 2014. Springer Link. Online.
Erdentuğ, Aygen, and Colombijn, Freek. Urban Ethnic Encounters the Spatial Consequences. London: Routledge, 2002. Online.
Parker, Karen F. Unequal Crime Decline: Theorizing Race, Urban Inequality, and Criminal Violence. New York: New York University Press, 2008. Print.
3rd Floor HV6789 .P39 2008
Simon, Jonathan. Governing through Crime: How the War on Crime Transformed American Democracy and Created a Culture of Fear. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. Print.
3rd Floor HV6789 .S57 2007
Wilson, Bruce L. & Corbett, H. Dickson. Listening to Urban Kids: School Reform and the Teachers They Want. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press. 2001.
3rd Floor LC5133.P5 W55 2001
Prisons
Journal of Prison Education & Reentry. Open Access Journal.
McGrew, Ken. Education's Prisoners: Schooling, The Political Economy, and the Prison Industrial Complex. New York: Peter Lang. 2008. Online.
Rawal, Tanya. Geographies of Debt: The Prison Industrial Complex and the Global South. The Global South 8.2 (2015): 34-48. Online.
Western, Bruce. Punishment and Inequality in America . New York: R. Sage Foundation, 2006. Print.
3rd Floor HV 9471 .W47 2006
Violence
Hamby, Sherry., and Grych, John. The Web of Violence : Exploring Connections Among Different Forms of Interpersonal Violence and Abuse. Dordrecht: Springer, 2012. Online.
McCord, Joan. Violence and Childhood in the Inner City . Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Print.
3rd Floor HN90.V5 V532 1997
Rosenfeld, Richard. Economics and Youth Violence : Crime, Disadvantage, and Community . New York: NYU Press, 2013. Print.
3rd Floor HQ 799.2.V56 E26 2013
Scheidel, Walter. The Great Leveler : Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century . Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2017. Print.
Popular Reading 1st Floor HM821 .S235 2017
Sharp, Dustin N. Justice and Economic Violence in Transition. New York: Springer, 2013. Online.
World Health Organization. Preventing Youth Violence: An Overview of the Evidence. 2015. Online.
Military
Kingsbury, Alex. "The Pros and Cons of Military Service." US News and World Report. October 21, 2010. Online
Sampson, Robert J., and John H. Laub. “Socioeconomic Achievement in the Life Course of Disadvantaged Men: Military Service as a Turning Point, Circa 1940-1965.” American Sociological Review, vol. 61, no. 3, June 1996, pp. 347–367. Online.
Wright-Isak, Christine, et al. Benefits of Military Service: Testing a More Complete Spectrum. Online.
Community Support and Social Justice
Center for Communities that Care. Communities That Care Plus. University of Washington. 2019. Online.
Haugen, David M., Musser, Susan and Kalambakal, Vickey. Social Justice. Farmington Hills, Mich: Greenhaven Press/Gale Cengage Learning, 2010. Print.
3rd Floor HM671 .S623 2010
Hawkins, J. David. Preventing Crime and Violence Through Communities that Care. European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research, December 1999. 7.4, pp. 443-458. Online.
Mthethwa-Sommers, Shirley. Narratives of Social Justice Educators Standing Firm. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2014. Online.
Social Justice. Journal. Online.
White, Cameron. Community Education for Social Justice. Rotterdam: Sense, 2014. Online.
Family Support and Role
"Involved Parents Key to Preventing Violence." The Post - Standard, Oct 24, 2002, pp. 8. ProQuest. Online.
Parks, Alisa B. The Effects of Family Structure on Juvenile Deliquency. Dissertation. East Tennessee State University. 2013. Online.
Slattery, Thomas, and Meyers, Steven. “Contextual Predictors of Adolescent Antisocial Behavior: The Developmental Influence of Family, Peer, and Neighborhood Factors.” Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal 31.1 (2014): 39–59. Online.
Smith, Paula et al. “The Protective Influence of Parents and Peers in Violence Avoidance Among African-American Youth.” Maternal and Child Health Journal 5.4 (2001): 245–252. Online.
Peers, Friendships and Influences
Farrell, Albert, Thompson, Erin, and Mehari, Krista. “Dimensions of Peer Influences and Their Relationship to Adolescents’ Aggression, Other Problem Behaviors and Prosocial Behavior.” Journal of Youth and Adolescence 46.6 (2017): 1351–1369. Online.
Koch, Marta. “Choose Your Friends Wisely.” Cell 169.2 (2017): 179–179. Online.
Vargas, Robert. “Being in ‘Bad’ Company: Power Dependence and Status in Adolescent Susceptibility to Peer Influence.” Social Psychology Quarterly 74.3 (2011): 310–332. Online.