Murray Milner

Freaks, Geeks, and Cool Kids

Teenagers in an Era of Consumerism, Standardized Tests, and Social Media

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In Freaks, Geeks, and Cool Kids, Second Edition, award-winning sociologist Murray Milner tries to understand why teenagers behave the way they do. The first edition drew upon two years of intensive fieldwork in one high school and 300 written interviews about high schools across the country, where he argued that consumer culture greatly impacts the way our youth relate to one another and understand themselves and society. Milner now expands on that concept with a new year of fieldwork fifteen years after he began. He has uncovered in teens a move away from consumerism and towards the cultural capital of information in a time of social media a… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-317-74660-7
EAN: 9781317746607
Produktnummer: 19573318
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
Seitenangabe: 380 S.
Plattform: PDF
Auflage: 2. Auflage

Über den Autor

Murray Milner, Jr. is Emeritus Professor of Sociology and Senior Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, University of Virginia. His book Status and Sacredness received the American Sociological Society's Distinguished Book Award. His most recent book is Elites: A General Model (Polity Books 2015).