Freaks, Geeks, and Cool Kids. This item is unavailable.
87 ratings by Goodreads
Language: English
Published by Routledge, 2006
- Softcover
- Used
Unavailable
Softcover
Condition: Used - Very good
US$ 3.00
Item description from seller
Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority.
Seller Inventory # S_464447180
- Title
- Freaks, Geeks, and Cool Kids
- Author
- Murray Milner Jr.
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Publication year
- 2006
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 041595391X
- ISBN 13
- 9780415953917
Freaks, Geeks, and Cool Kids argues that the teenage behaviors that annoy adults do not arise from "hormones," bad parenting, poor teaching, or "the media," but from adolescents' lack of power over the central features of their lives: they must attend school; they have no control over the curriculum; they can't choose who their classmates are. What teenagers do have is the power to create status systems and symbols that not only exasperate adults, but also impede learning and maturing. Ironically, parents, educators, and businesses are inadvertently major contributors to these outcomes.
"Synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
About the Author
Murray Milner, Jr., is Senior Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia. His books focus on the many faces of status, and include Status and Sacredness, winner of the American Sociological Association's Distinguished Publication Award, Unequal Care, and The Illusion of Equality.
"About the title" may belong to another edition of this title.