Monday, May 20, 2013
About Mars Hill Audio
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| Thomas Hine, author of The Rise and Fall of the American Teenager, notes that the term "teenager" was not part of popular usage until post-World War II America. Earlier views of teenagers emphasized qualities of young adulthood, quite unlike the "noble savage in blue jeans" which pervades current popular culture. Hine traces the rise of our current view and treatment of teenagers to the Great Depression, when jobs were scarce and young people had a significant amount of time on their hands. Hine uses a historical approach as opposed to a psychological approach in examining the changing role of the teenager in American society, suggesting that our current culture expects different things of teenagers, and our perceptions need to be adjusted accordingly. |  The Rise and Fall of the American Teenager (Avon Books, 1999) |
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