The modern age: turn-of-the-century American culture and the invention of adolescence
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1. Verfasser: Baxter, Kent (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Tuscaloosa University of Alabama Press ©2008
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-178) and index
New kids on the block : school reform, the juvenile court, and demographic change at the turn of the century -- G. Stanley Hall, Margaret Mead, and the invention of adolescence -- Every vigorous race : age and Indian reform movements -- Playing Indian : the rise and fall of the Woodcraft youth movements -- Teen reading at the turn of the century (part I) : Horatio Alger -- Teen reading at the turn of the century (part II) : Edward Stratemeyer
The Modern Age examines the discourses that have come to characterize adolescence and argues that commonplace views of adolescents as impulsive, conflicted, and rebellious are constructions inspired by broader cultural anxieties that characterized American society in early-twentieth-century America. ¡ The idea of adolescence, argues Kent Baxter, came into being because it fulfilled specific historical and cultural needs: to define a quickly expanding segment of the population, and to express concerns associated with the movement into a new era. Adolescence & mdash;a term that had little currenc
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