Freaks, geeks, and cool kids : American teenagers, schools, and the culture of consumption /
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New York :
Routledge,
2004.
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Table of Contents:
- Part 1. The puzzle and the tools
- Why do they behave like that?
- The tools for understanding
- Part 2. Explaining teens' behavior
- Fitting in, standing out, and keeping up
- Steering clear, hanging out, and hooking up
- Exchanges, labels, and put-downs
- Part 3. Why schools vary
- The pluralistic high school
- Other kinds of schools
- Part 4. Teen status systems and consumerism
- Creating consumers
- Consuming life
- Conclusions and implications.