Road to whatever : middle-class culture and the crisis of adolescence / Elliott Currie.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Henry Holt, 2005Description: 305 pages ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0805067639
- 9780805067637
- 305.235086920973 22
- HQ796 .C896 2005
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305.235072 REP Representing youth : methodological issues in critical youth studies / | 305.23508351 FRO Young masculinities : understanding boys in contemporary society / | 305.23508351 FRO Young masculinities : understanding boys in contemporary society / | 305.235086920973 CUR Road to whatever : middle-class culture and the crisis of adolescence / | 305.235089 ETH Ethnicity and Causal Mechanisms / | 305.23508999509325 AUT AUT Pacific Islands families study of those born in 2000, at Manukau City, New Zealand / | 305.2350905 NEW A new youth? : young people, generations and family life / |
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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