Introduction

• What makes youth a social group?
• First class, no reading assigned

Generations

• Philippe Aries. 1962. Centuries of Childhood, pp. 128-133, 329-336 (in reading packet).
• Bennett M. Berger. 1971. "How Long is a Generation?" from Looking For America, pp. 20-37 (in reading packet).

Constructing Youth

• Joseph M. Hawes. 1991. The Children's Rights Movement, chapter 8 (in reading packet).
• Viviana A. Zelizer. "Pricing the Priceless Child: from Baby Farms to Black Market Babies." in Skolnick & Skolnick, eds., Family in Transition, 7th edition (in reading packet).

Teen Life: High School, Cliques, Murder, Suicide

• Donna Gaines. 1990 Teenage Wasteland: Suburbia's Dead End Kids.

• Tamar Lewin. 1999. "Terror in Littleton." New York Times (in reading packet).

• Kenneth Thompson. 1982. Emile Durkheim, section 3.6 "Suicide" (in reading packet).

Education and Social Inequalities

• Roslyn Arlyn Mickelson and Stephen Samuel Smith. 1991. "Education and the Struggle against Race, Class and Gender Inequality." Chapter 47 in Susan J. Ferguson, ed., Mapping the Social Landscape (in reading packet).

Social Problems of Youth

Juvenile Delinquency

• David F. Greenberg. 1977. "Delinquency and the Age Structure of Society" (in reading packet).