Volume 5, Number 2 · August 26, 1965
Making the Grade
By Edgar Z. Friedenberg
Youth and the Social Order
by F. Musgrove
Indiana University Press, 168 pp., $5.00
Society and the Adolescent Self-Image
by Morris Rosenberg
Princeton University Press, 326 pp., $6.50
The Social Context of Ambition
by Ralph Turner
Chandler, 269 pp., $5.00
During the past months there has been a fortunate shift in the kinds of books that are being published about youth. What has previously been most common were manuals for solving 'teenage problems,' and guilty soliloquies whose remorse never extended as far as condemnation of the social structure itself. More recent work, however, based on serious research, though the investigations vary in quality and significance.
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