| Description |
1 online resource (174 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 The Performance Ethic in American Society; Social Control; The Social Roots of the Performance Ethic; The Sociological Imagination; The Performance Ethic as a Public Issue; Key Terms; Review Questions; Discussion Questions; 2 Measuring Up in the Early Years; The Serious Childhood; Intensive Parenting; Stressful Family Ties; Professional Mothering; School: Beyond Toddlerhood; Key Terms; Review Questions; Discussion Questions; Activities; 3 Why Teens Try Harder: Adolescent Life in the United States |
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Peer ParalysisLooks: ""Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall; Getting the Grades; The Sporting Life; The SAT: The Future as Guesswork; Thin to Win; Life and Death Matters; College Life and Late Adolescence; Human Capital; Getting Grades, Revisited; Anorexia: The Problem Returns; The Résumé Builder; Key Terms; Review Questions; Discussion Questions; Activities; 4 The Measured Self in the Middle Years; The Masculinity/Femininity Dilemma; Fit as a Fiddle; Supermom/Superdad; Status Achievement; Excursus on Sexuality; Performance Anxiety; Sexual Anomie: Expectations Run Wild; Key Terms; Review Questions |
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Discussion QuestionsActivities; 5 Losers, Weepers: Dilemmas of the Underclass; Women; Black Americans; Hispanics; The Credential Spiral; Empathy Failure; Key Terms; Review Questions; Discussion Questions; Activities; 6 Constructing a New Vision: The Emergence of the Productive Self; The Present Vision; A New Vision; The Productive Self; Family; Education; School Inequality; University Life; The Economy and Work; Key Terms; Review Questions; Discussion Questions; Activities; Notes; About the Book and Author; Index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| SUBJECT |
United States. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78095330
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| Subject |
United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780429978630 |
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0429978634 |
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