Freaks, Geeks, and Cool Kids : American Teenagers, Schools, And the Culture of Consumption
ISBN: 9780415953917 | 041595391X
Edition: 1stFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Routledge
Pub. Date: 6/21/2006
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Welcome back to high school. Is it different? In some schools the pecking order hasn't changed, only the names; in others ranking is gone, but clique boundaries are even more rigid. From the lunchroom to the prom, students are obsessed with who sits together, who goes together, what people are wearing and driving. But in addition new kinds of relationships, anxieties, and conflicts have emerged. Both these old and the new features of teen culture shape our children in ways that are more fundamental than the content of the curriculum. Murray Mil... MORE
| Preface | xi | ||||
| Acknowledgments | xiii | ||||
| PART I: THE PUZZLE AND THE TOOLS | |||||
| 3 | (10) | |||
| 13 | (14) | |||
| 27 | (12) | |||
| PART II: EXPLAINING TEENS' BEHAVIOR | |||||
| 39 | (22) | |||
| 61 | (20) | |||
| 81 | (18) | |||
| PART III: WHY SCHOOLS VARY | |||||
| 99 | (32) | |||
| 131 | (24) | |||
| PART IV: TEEN STATUS SYSTEMS AND CONSUMERISM | |||||
| 155 | (16) | |||
| 171 | (10) | |||
| 181 | (22) | |||
| APPENDICES | |||||
| 203 | (14) | |||
| 217 | (6) | |||
| 223 | (16) | |||
| Notes | 239 | (46) | |||
| Bibliography | 285 | (14) | |||
| Index | 299 |
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