The Boy and His Gang
by Joseph Adams Puffer
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About this eBook
- Author
- Puffer, Joseph Adams, 1872-1958
- Title
- The boy and his gang
- Credits
- Produced by amsibert, Charlie Howard, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- HQ: Social sciences: The family, Marriage, Sex and Gender
- Subject
- Boys -- Societies and clubs
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 57927
- Release Date
- September 18, 2018
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.THE BOY AND HIS GANG
- 2.PREFACE
- 3.CONTENTS
- 4.ILLUSTRATIONS
- 5.INTRODUCTION
- 6.THE BOY AND HIS GANG — CHAPTER I THE ETERNAL BOY
- 7.CHAPTER II THE GENERAL NATURE OF THE GANG — The Morse Hollow Athletic Club — The Tennis Club — The Dowser Glums — The Island Gang — The Medford Street Gang — Another boy’s report of the same Gang—one year later — The Methuen Gang
- 8.CHAPTER III THE ORGANIZATION OF THE GANG — Nationality and Social Class — Organization — Time and Place of Meeting — Officers — Initiation — Rules — Dropping out of Gangs and Expulsion — Settling Disputes
- 9.CHAPTER IV CERTAIN ACTIVITIES OF THE GANG
- 10.CHAPTER V FURTHER ACTIVITIES OF THE GANG — Migratory Activities — Boy Number 1 — Boy Number 2 — Boy Number 3 — Truancy — The Theatre — Fighting — Personal Fights — Group fighting inside of gangs — Fights between gangs — A Fight between Federations of Gangs
- 11.CHAPTER VI THE ANTHROPOLOGY AND PSYCHOLOGY OF THE GANG
- 12.CHAPTER VII THE CONTROL OF THE MORE PRIMITIVE IMPULSES
- 13.CHAPTER VIII THE MANAGEMENT OF THE PREDATORY IMPULSES
- 14.CHAPTER IX THE TRIBAL INSTINCTS AND THE WANDERLUST
- 15.CHAPTER X THE INDIVIDUALISTIC ACTIVITIES AND THE GROUP GAMES
- 16.CHAPTER XI THE SPECIAL VIRTUES OF THE GANG
- 17.CHAPTER XII THE GANG IN CONSTRUCTIVE SOCIAL WORK — The Gang and the Boy Scouts — The Gang and the Church — The Gang and the Sunday School — The Gang and the Home — The Gang and the Boys’ Club — The Gang and the Playground — The Gang and the Summer Camp
- 18.CHAPTER XIII THE GANG AND THE SCHOOL
- 19.Transcriber’s Notes
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