{"id":1556,"date":"2021-12-31T09:03:40","date_gmt":"2021-12-31T09:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unsilenced.org\/?p=1556"},"modified":"2022-03-11T08:32:20","modified_gmt":"2022-03-11T08:32:20","slug":"the-road-to-whatever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unsilenced.org\/the-road-to-whatever\/","title":{"rendered":"The Road to Whatever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/books\/the-road-to-whatever-middle-class-culture-and-the-crisis-of-adolescence\/9780805080001\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Road to Whatever: Middle Class Culture and the Crisis of Adolescence<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 By Elliott Currie \u2013 In this groundbreaking book, acclaimed sociologist and Pulitzer Prize finalist Elliott Currie draws on years of interviews to offer a profound investigation of what has gone wrong for so many \u201cmainstream\u201d American adolescents. Rejecting such predictable answers as TV violence, permissiveness, and inherent evil, Currie links this crisis to a pervasive \u201cculture of exclusion\u201d fostered by a society in which medications trump guidance and a punitive \u201czero tolerance\u201d approach to adolescent misbehavior has become the norm. Broadening his inquiry, he dissects the changes in middle-class life that stratify the world into \u201cwinners\u201d and \u201closers,\u201d imposing an extraordinarily harsh culture\u2013and not just on kids.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Road to Whatever: Middle Class Culture and the Crisis of Adolescence\u00a0\u2013 By Elliott Currie \u2013 In this groundbreaking book, acclaimed sociologist and Pulitzer Prize finalist Elliott Currie draws on years of interviews to offer a profound investigation of what has gone wrong for so many \u201cmainstream\u201d American adolescents. Rejecting such predictable answers as TV [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1446,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"acf":[],"cp_meta_data":{"_edit_lock":["1646987541:2"],"_edit_last":["2"],"_thumbnail_id":["1446"],"_fusion":["a:16:{s:25:\"show_first_featured_image\";s:3:\"yes\";s:4:\"fimg\";a:2:{s:5:\"width\";s:0:\"\";s:6:\"height\";s:0:\"\";}s:17:\"post_links_target\";s:2:\"no\";s:7:\"bg_full\";s:2:\"no\";s:17:\"slider_visibility\";s:51:\"small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility\";s:12:\"main_padding\";a:2:{s:3:\"top\";s:0:\"\";s:6:\"bottom\";s:0:\"\";}s:15:\"content_bg_full\";s:2:\"no\";s:20:\"image_rollover_icons\";s:7:\"default\";s:9:\"bg_repeat\";s:7:\"default\";s:11:\"slider_type\";s:2:\"no\";s:9:\"wooslider\";s:1:\"0\";s:19:\"blog_page_title_bar\";s:7:\"default\";s:17:\"content_bg_repeat\";s:7:\"default\";s:13:\"posts_sidebar\";s:15:\"default_sidebar\";s:15:\"posts_sidebar_2\";s:15:\"default_sidebar\";s:14:\"sidebar_sticky\";s:7:\"default\";}"],"_fusion_google_fonts":[""],"fusion_builder_status":[""],"om_disable_all_campaigns":[""],"avada_post_views_count":["439"],"avada_today_post_views_count":["1"],"avada_post_views_count_today_date":["25-04-2024"]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unsilenced.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unsilenced.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unsilenced.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unsilenced.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unsilenced.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unsilenced.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unsilenced.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unsilenced.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unsilenced.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unsilenced.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}