The road to whatever : middle-class culture and the crisis of adolescence

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

A compassionate investigation of the root causes of the epidemic of drug abuse, violence, and despair among "mainstream" American teenagers. 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 at Columbin...

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Main Author: Currie, Elliott
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt, 2005.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Youth > United States.
Middle class > United States.
Youth and violence.
Youth > Drug use.
Despair.
Online Access:Sample text
Table of 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.

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