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In some respects Jamaica, like the rest of the British Caribbean, is regarded as being part of western industrialised society. At the same time it is a developing, or under-developed country, with tremendous social problems, and its own peculiarities of life and culture, providing a unique social setting within which its adolescents must grow up.
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Phillips, A.S. (1973). The Jamaican Setting. In: Adolescence in Jamaica. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-02142-0_2
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