ISBN:
9781315795133
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (1 online resource)
Edition:
Second edition
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Freaks, Geeks, and Cool Kids : Teenagers in an Era of Consumerism, Standardized Tests, and Social Media
DDC:
305.2350973
Keywords:
Teenagers
;
Teenagers
;
Teenage consumers
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Preface: Fifteen Years Later -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Fifteen Years Later -- What's Old -- What's New -- Part I: The Puzzle and the Tools -- Introduction -- The Questions -- Some Headlines -- What's New? -- Warning Labels -- Chapter One: Why Do They Behave Like That? -- Are Parents Important? -- Are Brains Important? -- Is Social Class Important? -- Are Schools Important? -- Are Peers Important? -- Status Groups: Adolescence as a Caste System -- Why is Status so Important to Teenagers? -- Chapter Two: The Tools for Understanding -- Social Formations: Combination, Separation, and Linking -- The Theory of Status Relations -- Hierarchy and Pluralism: Ideal-Types -- Data and Methods -- Part II: Explaining Teens' Behavior -- Chapter Three: Fitting In, Standing Out, and Keeping Up -- Some Crowds and their Rankings -- Aspects of Conformity and Elaboration -- The Flexibility of Norms and Status Symbols -- Coolness and Boredom -- Chapter Four: Steering Clear, Hanging Out, and Hooking Up -- Instrumental and Expressive Relationships -- Types of Associations and Relationships -- The Effect of Time and Place on Associations -- Chapter Five: Exchanges, Labels, and Put-Downs -- Inalienability -- Inexpansibility -- Part III: Why Schools Vary -- Chapter Six: The Pluralistic High School -- Pluralism -- The Research Setting -- Racial Pluralism -- Lifestyle Pluralism -- Why is Conflict Rare and Segregation Prevalent? -- How Common is Pluralism? -- Explaining Pluralism -- Chapter Seven: Other Kinds of Schools -- The "Military" Academy -- The Upper-Class "Total Institution" -- The Small-Town School -- Schools on Military Bases -- Church Schools and The Effect of Ideology -- Schools in Other Countries: A Brief Note.
Description / Table of Contents:
""Cover ""; ""Half Title ""; ""Title Page ""; ""Copyright Page ""; ""Dedication ""; ""Table of Contents ""; ""Preface: Fifteen Years Later ""; ""Preface ""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction: Fifteen Years Later ""; ""What's Old ""; ""What's New""; ""Part I: The Puzzle and the Tools ""; ""Introduction ""; ""The Questions ""; ""Some Headlines ""; ""What's New? ""; ""Warning Labels ""; ""Chapter One: Why Do They Behave Like That? ""; ""Are Parents Important? ""; ""Are Brains Important? ""; ""Is Social Class Important? ""; ""Are Schools Important? ""; ""Are Peers Important? ""
Description / Table of Contents:
""Status Groups: Adolescence as a Caste System """"Why is Status so Important to Teenagers? ""; ""Chapter Two: The Tools for Understanding ""; ""Social Formations: Combination, Separation, and Linking ""; ""The Theory of Status Relations ""; ""Hierarchy and Pluralism: Ideal-Types ""; ""Data and Methods ""; ""Part II: Explaining Teens' Behavior ""; ""Chapter Three: Fitting In, Standing Out, and Keeping Up ""; ""Some Crowds and their Rankings ""; ""Aspects of Conformity and Elaboration ""; ""The Flexibility of Norms and Status Symbols ""; ""Coolness and Boredom ""
Description / Table of Contents:
""Chapter Four: Steering Clear, Hanging Out, and Hooking Up """"Instrumental and Expressive Relationships ""; ""Types of Associations and Relationships ""; ""The Effect of Time and Place on Associations ""; ""Chapter Five: Exchanges, Labels, and Put-Downs ""; ""Inalienability ""; ""Inexpansibility ""; ""Part III: Why Schools Vary ""; ""Chapter Six: The Pluralistic High School ""; ""Pluralism ""; ""The Research Setting ""; ""Racial Pluralism ""; ""Lifestyle Pluralism ""; ""Why is Conflict Rare and Segregation Prevalent? ""; ""How Common is Pluralism? ""; ""Explaining Pluralism ""
Description / Table of Contents:
""Chapter Seven: Other Kinds of Schools """"The "Military" Academy ""; ""The Upper-Class "Total Institution" ""; ""The Small-Town School ""; ""Schools on Military Bases ""; ""Church Schools and The Effect of Ideology ""; ""Schools in Other Countries: A Brief Note ""; ""Part IV: Teen Status Systems and Consumerism ""; ""Chapter Eight: Creating Consumers ""; ""The Economy and the Status System ""; ""Businesses: Profiting From Teenagers ""; ""Teachers, Officials, and Parents: Profiting in Other Ways ""; ""Chapter Nine: Consuming Life ""; ""From Abstract Labor to Abstract Desire ""
Description / Table of Contents:
""From Abstract Desire to Patriotic Consumption """"The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism ""; ""The Future: Who Do We Want to Be? ""; ""Chapter Ten: Conclusions and Implications ""; ""The Theory of Status Relations ""; ""Some Policy Implications ""; ""Conformity, Norms, and Inexpansibility ""; ""Associations and Inalienability ""; ""Reducing the Significance of Peer Status ""; ""Some Speculations and Opinions ""; ""Part V: Fifteen Years Later ""; ""Chapter Eleven: Fifteen Years Later ""; ""Academic Pressure, Polarization, and an Instrumental Peer Culture ""
Description / Table of Contents:
""The Impact of New Technologies ""
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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