CJS 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Tunxis Community College, Morphophonology, Heath High School Shooting
8 Dec 2020
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The impetus for the shootings did not come from bad parenting or broken families, the. Rather the rage that fuels school shooters emerges as the last act in a long bitter drama that is central to adolescent world they inhabit. To fail the test of cool is to be subjected to withering attacks on one"s self-worth. The teenagers" pressure cooker is created and sustained by youths, but its power derives from the way the surrounding adult society reinforces its central messages. culture. Grown-ups are party to the status-seeking, ridicule-laden social system of youth. Their participation, tacit and explicit, in the status games reinforced the worst. In homogeneous small towns where adults are heavily invested in the activities of their aspects of teenage life. kids, reputations made in high school can last into adulthood. Social failures are magnified and can seem more like a life sentence than a rite of.
