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The Rise and Fall of the American Teenager

by Thomas Hine

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How America Invented the Teenager

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How America Invented the Teenager

Thomas Hine approaches adolescence not as a fixed biological category but as an American social idea shaped across the twentieth century. The book places contemporary teenage consumer culture alongside earlier ways young people encountered adulthood, including Puritan spiritual expectations and Native American vision quests. Its historical sweep examines how institutions, cultural pressures, and changing expectations have defined the years between childhood and adulthood. By tracing these shifts, Hine foregrounds the assumptions behind familiar stereotypes about teenagers and invites a reconsideration of what society asks of them.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in the social history of adolescence in the United States
  • Parents, educators, and others examining cultural assumptions about teenagers
  • Readers of sociology and family-studies nonfiction

Themes

Adolescence as a social constructAmerican youth cultureChanging expectations of young peopleTeenage consumerismStereotypes about teenagers

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Book overview

In the groundbreaking work, Thomas Hine examines the American teenager as a social invention shaped by the needs of the twentieth century. With intelligence, insight, imagination, and humorm he traces the culture of youth in America-from the spiritual trials of young Puritans and the vision quests of Native Americans to the media-blitzed consumerism of contempory thirteen-to-nineteen -year-olds. The resulting study is a glorious appreciation of youth that challenges us to confront our sterotypesm, rethink our expectations, and consider anew the lives of those individuals who are blessing, our bane, and our future.

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