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Road to whatever : middle-class culture and the crisis of adolescence / Elliott Currie.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Henry Holt, 2005Description: 305 pages ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0805067639
  • 9780805067637
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.235086920973 22
LOC classification:
  • HQ796 .C896 2005
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction: "A white kind of messing up" -- "Whatever, dude" : the elements of care-lessness -- The sink-or-swim family -- "There's no help out there" : the world of therapeutic darwinism -- The school as opponent -- Turning it around -- Toward a culture of support.
Review: "In the past few years, it has become painfully clear that all is not well with the children of middle-class America. Beyond the shootings of Columbine, hardly a day goes by without stories of drug use, binge drinking, destructive violence, and senseless suicides among middle-class adolescents. But the "why" of these tragedies has eluded us." "In this book, acclaimed sociologist and Pulitzer Prize finalist Elliott Currie rejects such predictable answers as TV violence, permissiveness, and inherent evil. Instead, drawing on years of in-depth interviews with troubled adolescents, he links the crisis of today's youth to a pervasive culture of exclusion and neglect that has left young people with diminishing supports or options as they face an ever-more unforgiving adult world." "The Road to Whatever is an investigation of what has gone wrong for so many American teenagers and a stark indictment of a society that has lost the will - or the capacity - to care."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-294) and index.

Introduction: "A white kind of messing up" -- "Whatever, dude" : the elements of care-lessness -- The sink-or-swim family -- "There's no help out there" : the world of therapeutic darwinism -- The school as opponent -- Turning it around -- Toward a culture of support.

"In the past few years, it has become painfully clear that all is not well with the children of middle-class America. Beyond the shootings of Columbine, hardly a day goes by without stories of drug use, binge drinking, destructive violence, and senseless suicides among middle-class adolescents. But the "why" of these tragedies has eluded us." "In this book, acclaimed sociologist and Pulitzer Prize finalist Elliott Currie rejects such predictable answers as TV violence, permissiveness, and inherent evil. Instead, drawing on years of in-depth interviews with troubled adolescents, he links the crisis of today's youth to a pervasive culture of exclusion and neglect that has left young people with diminishing supports or options as they face an ever-more unforgiving adult world." "The Road to Whatever is an investigation of what has gone wrong for so many American teenagers and a stark indictment of a society that has lost the will - or the capacity - to care."--BOOK JACKET.

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