Suburban Youth in Cultural Crisis

By: Ralph W. Larkin

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Paperback | 5 September 2000

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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.

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"A provocative book. Its ethnographic value is clear."--Contemporary Sociology "Dr. Larkin's book is a rare find--one that combines ethnographic sophistication with macro-social awareness. His book is not only relevant to education but to any student of socialization, social psychology or of American society."--Peter Freund, Montclair State College

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Foreword	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. viii
Welcome to the Great American Dream	p. 1
Notes	p. 21
Youth in Post-Scarcity America	p. 24
Notes	p. 61
Jocks, Grinds, Freaks, Greasers, Bobos, Rah-Rahs, Hard Guys, Nerds and Others: The Social Structure of Utopia High	p. 67
Notes	p. 93
Paean to Dionysus: Sex and Drugs	p. 95
Notes	p. 123
The Politics of Meaninglessness	p. 125
Conclusion Who Gives a Damn?	p. 160
Notes	p. 162
The Other Side of the Barricade	p. 165
Conclusion the Politics of Age	p. 197
Youth and the Degradation of Everyday Life	p. 201
Methodological Appendix	p. 227
References	p. 247
Index	p. 253
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