The Road to Whatever: Middle-Class Culture and the Crisis of Adolescence
ISBN-13:
9780805067637
ISBN-10:
0805067639
Edition:
First Edition
Author:
Elliott Currie
Publication date:
2005
Publisher:
Metropolitan Books
Format:
Hardcover
320 pages
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ISBN-13:
9780805067637
ISBN-10:
0805067639
Edition:
First Edition
Author:
Elliott Currie
Publication date:
2005
Publisher:
Metropolitan Books
Format:
Hardcover
320 pages
Summary
The Road to Whatever: Middle-Class Culture and the Crisis of Adolescence (ISBN-13: 9780805067637 and ISBN-10: 0805067639), written by authors
Elliott Currie, was published by Metropolitan Books in 2005.
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From the Pulitzer Prize finalist, a sharp and 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 Columbine, hardly a day goes by without stories of drug use, binge drinking, fatal accidents, and senseless suicides among middle-class adolescents. But the "why" of these tragedies has eluded us.
In this groundbreaking 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 interviews, he links this crisis to a pervasive "culture of exclusion" that has left young people facing an ever more unforgiving world. Currie describes a society in which severe punishment and "zero tolerance" of adolescent misbehavior have become the norm, where "tough love" and medications have replaced engagement and guidance. Broadening his inquiry, he dissects the changes in middle-class life that have enforced newly rigid divides between winners and losers and imposed an extraordinarily harsh culture-and not just on kids.
Vivid, compelling, and deeply empathetic, The Road to Whatever is a profound 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.
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