[xmca] another view of adolescence

[Jay Lemke <jaylemke@umich.edu>]

Perspectives from Cultural Studies offer some different views on the notion of adolescence as not simply a culturally constructed, or culturally variable notion, but one that plays a specific role, via various discourse formations in a lot of complex ideologies of contemporary society.

I harbor a profound skepticism of efforts to naturalize, much less universalize, this notion, particularly if they do not include a critically reflexive analysis of such matters, including in the discourse of psychology itself.

For some pointers, one starting place is:
Moje, Elizabeth Birr & van Helden, Caspar J. L.   (2005). Doing popular culture: Troubling adolescent discourses.  L. P. Stevens and J. A. Vadeboncoeur, (Eds.).  Re/Constructing „the                                adolescent”:  Sign, symbol and body. New York:  Peter Lang.

-- not just the chapter, but the whole volume.

JAY.
 
Jay Lemke
Senior Research Scientist
Laboratory for Comparative Human Cognition
University of California - San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, California 92093-0506

Professor (Adjunct status 2009-11)
School of Education
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
www.umich.edu/~jaylemke 

Professor Emeritus
City University of New York







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