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This book provides an engaging account of the moral lives of young black South Africans once the struggle against apartheid ended and took away their object of political resistance. It shows how partial-parenting, partial-schooling, and pervasive poverty contributes to how a group of young people construct right and wrong and what rules govern their behavior.

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Introduction The South African Moral Context The Study of Youth Morality in a Context of Poverty South Africa´s Fractured Morality ´What World is This?´ Youth Morality in the Aftermath of Apartheid Constructing Moral Codes of Right and Wrong Positioning Others and Locating the Moral Self Moral Processes: Decision-making and Dissonance Making Meaning of Moral Influences Applying Contextual Moral Knowledge Moral Capital - Working at Being Good Implications for Homes, Classrooms and Communities Appendices

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SHARLENE SWARTZ is currently a research specialist in the Child, Youth, Family and Social Development division of the Human Sciences Research Council in South Africa, and a visiting research fellow at Cambridge University.

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