{"id":2361,"date":"2021-07-20T22:38:17","date_gmt":"2021-07-21T05:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.breakingcodesilence.org\/?p=2361"},"modified":"2021-07-21T14:29:29","modified_gmt":"2021-07-21T21:29:29","slug":"the-road-to-whatever-middle-class-culture-and-the-crisis-of-adolescence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.breakingcodesilence.org\/the-road-to-whatever-middle-class-culture-and-the-crisis-of-adolescence\/","title":{"rendered":"The Road to Whatever: Middle Class Culture and the Crisis of Adolescence"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Road to Whatever: Middle Class Culture and the Crisis of Adolescence<\/a> <\/strong>\u2013 By Elliott Currie \u2013 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 \u201cmainstream\u201d American adolescents. Rejecting such predictable answers as TV violence, permissiveness, and inherent evil, Currie links this crisis to a pervasive \u201cculture of exclusion\u201d fostered by a society in which medications trump guidance and a punitive \u201czero tolerance\u201d approach to adolescent misbehavior has become the norm. Broadening his inquiry, he dissects the changes in middle-class life that stratify the world into \u201cwinners\u201d and \u201closers,\u201d imposing an extraordinarily harsh culture\u2013and not just on kids.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>