Freaks Geeks & Cool Kids: How Teenagers Shape Consumer Society and How Consumer Society Shapes Teenagers Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Freaks Geeks & Cool Kids: How Teenagers Shape Consumer Society and How Consumer Society Shapes Teenagers Book

In this timely and insightful book, award-winning sociologist Murray Milner tries to understand why teenagers behave the way they do. Drawing upon two years of intensive fieldwork in one highschool and 300 written interviews about high schools across the country, he argues that consumer culture has greatly impacted the way our youth relate to one another and understand themselves and society. He also suggests that the status systems in high schools are in and of themselves an important contributing factor to the creation and maintenance of consumer capitalism explaining the importance of designer jeans and designer drugs in an effort to be the coolest kid in the class.Read More

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  • 0415948304
  • 9780415948302
  • Murray Milner Jr.
  • 2 March 2004
  • Routledge
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 320
  • 1
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