| Re/Constructing «The Adolescent»: Sign, Symbol, and Body Contributor(s): DeVitis, Joseph L. (Editor), Irwin-DeVitis, Linda (Editor), Vadeboncoeur, Jennifer A. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0820468037 ISBN-13: 9780820468037 Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi OUR PRICE: $49.88 Product Type: Paperback Published: November 2004 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Family & Relationships | Life Stages - Adolescence - Education | Secondary - Language Arts & Disciplines |
| Dewey: 305.235 |
| LCCN: 2003027183 |
| Series: Adolescent Cultures, School and Society |
| Physical Information: 302 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Young people today are frequently demonized by media images as well as by classroom reports. Dominant discourses, as ways of seeing and talking about youths, are constructed and managed by adults and offer young people a limited set of roles to play and options for engaging with society. Contributors to Re/Constructing the Adolescent problematize the social construction of the adolescent through a critique of the discourses that position youths and an examination of how youths enact, contest, and sometimes transform those same discourses. These studies, combining empirical research and semiotic analyses, offer a fresh perspective on young people in western societies today, at the level of everyday discourse, embodied through gesture and symbolic action, with material effects. |