Middlebury

SOAN0475A-S11

Social Control/Problem Youth

Bad Boys and Wayward Girls: The Social Control of “Problem Youth”
Everyone worries about young people; we scrutinize their clothes, music, friends, grades, drugs, and sports. Families, schools, medicine, and psychology communicate what it means to be a "normal" young person. Reformatories and other disciplinary mechanisms convey the consequences for rule breaking. In this course, we will (1) look at the construction of childhood, the invention of delinquency, the creation of adolescence, and the ideas of normalcy embedded in these categories; (2) consider how class, race, and gender intersect with the mechanisms of social control exerted over those who deviate; and (3) explore how young people resist the social pressures to be good boys and docile girls. (SOAN 0105) 3 hrs. sem.
Course Reference Number (CRN):
22032
Subject Code:
SOAN
Course Number:
0475
Section Identifier:
A

Course

SOAN 0475

All Sections in Spring 2011

Spring 2011

SOAN0475A-S11 Seminar (Tiger)