Beyond Conformity Or Rebellion
Beyond Conformity Or RebellionGary Schwartz
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Beyond Conformity Or Rebellion

Beyond Conformity Or Rebellion Youth and Authority in America

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By the late 1970s, drugs, blue jeans, rock and roll, and sexual precocity appeared to be all that remained of the cultural ferment of the 1960s. In this classic new study of high school-aged youth in the eartly 70s, Gary Schwartz reveals subtle yet significant changes in the style of deviance in adolescent culture. He argues that a new sort of peer-group pluralism emerged from the counter-culture movement of the 60s, a deviance defined less by persistent violations of the law than by disengagement from traditional images of success and civic responsibility.