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Suburban Youth in Cultural Crisis
By Ralph W. Larkin
272 pages
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- Oxford University Press
- Place of publication:
- New York
- Publication year:
- 1979
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Synopsis
Based on participant-observation research at an upper-middle class suburban high school, this book incisively explains the causes and consequences of the decline of American public education throughout the 1960s and 1970s.Related books and articles at Questia
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Table of contents
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- Title Page iii
- Foreword vii
- Acknowledgments viii
- Contents ix
- 1 - Welcome to the Great American Dream 1
- Notes 21
- 2 - Youth in Post-Scarcity America 24
- Notes 61
- 3 - Jocks, Grinds, Freaks, Greasers, Bobos, Rah-Rahs, Hard Guys, Nerds and Others: The Social Structure of Utopia High 67
- Notes 93
- 4 - Paean to Dionysus: Sex and Drugs 95
- Notes 123
- 5 - The Politics of Meaninglessness 125
- Conclusion: Who Gives a Damn? 160
- Notes 162
- 6 - The Other Side of the Barricade 165
- Title Page iii
- Foreword vii
- Acknowledgments viii
- Contents ix
- 1 - Welcome to the Great American Dream 1
- Notes 21
- 2 - Youth in Post-Scarcity America 24
- Notes 61
- 3 - Jocks, Grinds, Freaks, Greasers, Bobos, Rah-Rahs, Hard Guys, Nerds and Others: The Social Structure of Utopia High 67
- Notes 93
- 4 - Paean to Dionysus: Sex and Drugs 95
- Notes 123
- 5 - The Politics of Meaninglessness 125
- Conclusion: Who Gives a Damn? 160
- Notes 162
- 6 - The Other Side of the Barricade 165
- Conclusion: the Politics of Age 197
- 7 - Youth and the Degradation of Everyday Life 201
- Methodological Appendix 227
- References 247
- Index 253