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The Road to Whatever: Middle-Class Culture and the Crisis of Adolescence
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(Buch) |
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Veröffentlichung: |
September 2000
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Genre: |
Soziologie |
ISBN: |
9780805080001 |
EAN-Code:
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9780805080001 |
Verlag: |
St. Martins Press-3pl |
Einband: |
Kartoniert |
Sprache: |
English
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Dimensionen: |
H 229 mm / B 152 mm / D 19 mm |
Gewicht: |
518 gr |
Seiten: |
318 |
Zus. Info: |
Paperback |
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Inhalt: |
An "energetic," "provocative," and "much-needed" investigation of the root causes of the epidemic of drug abuse, violence, and despair among middle-class American teenagers (Los Angeles Times)
In this groundbreaking book, acclaimed sociologist and Pulitzer Prize finalist Elliott Currie draws on years of interviews to offer a profound investigation of what has gone wrong for so many "mainstream" American adolescents. Rejecting such predictable answers as TV violence, permissiveness, and inherent evil, Currie links this crisis to a pervasive "culture of exclusion" fostered by a society in which medications trump guidance and a punitive "zero tolerance" approach to adolescent misbehavior has become the norm. Broadening his inquiry, he dissects the changes in middle-class life that stratify the world into "winners" and "losers," imposing an extraordinarily harsh culture-and not just on kids. Vivid, compelling, and deeply empathetic, The Road to Whatever is a stark indictment of a society that has lost the will-or the capacity-to care. |
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