An "energetic," "provocative," and "much-needed" investigation of the root causes of the epidemic of drug abuse, violence, and despair among middle-class American teenagers (Los Angeles Times)
In this groundbreaking book, acclaimed sociologist and Pulitzer Prize finalist Elliott Currie draws on years of interviews to offer a profound investigation of what has gone wrong for so many "mainstream" American adolescents. Rejecting such predictable answers as TV violence, permissiveness, and inherent evil, Currie links this crisis to a pervasive "culture of exclusion" fostered by a society in which medications trump guidance and a punitive "zero tolerance" approach to adolescent misbehavior has become the norm. Broadening his inquiry, he dissects the changes in middle-class life that stratify the world into "winners" and "losers," imposing an extraordinarily harsh culture-and not just on kids.
Vivid, compelling, and deeply empathetic, The Road to Whatever is a stark indictment of a society that has lost the will-or the capacity-to care.
| Autorius: | Elliott Currie |
| Leidėjas: | St. Martins Press-3PL |
| Išleidimo metai: | 2000 |
| Knygos puslapių skaičius: | 318 |
| ISBN-10: | 0805080007 |
| ISBN-13: | 9780805080001 |
| Formatas: | 229 x 152 x 19 mm. Knyga minkštu viršeliu |
| Kalba: | Anglų |
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