Generation on Hold: Coming of Age in the Late Twentieth Century Book

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction
Pt. 1	The Prolongation of Youth	1
1	The Discovery of Youth	5
	Nature: Adolescence as a Product of Biology	5
	Nurture: Adolescence as a Product of Culture	16
	A Speculative Interdisciplinary Approach	28
2	The Liabilities of Youth in Advanced Industrial Society	33
	Credentialism and Education Inflation	34
	"Cooling Out the Mark"	40
	The New Service Worker	45
	Statistical Indicators of Change	48
	The Disenfranchisement of Youth	66
3	The Conquest of Youth	70
	The Psychological Basis of Identity	71
	Adolescence as a Moratorium	74
	Identity Manipulation	80
	Gender Intensification	84
	Coming of Age in the Wake of Gender Intensification	95
Pt. 2	The Political Economy of Youth	101
4	Ideology and the Politics of Social Control	105
	The Manufacture of Consent	105
	The Ideology of Youth	107
	Language and Ideology	111
	The Macropolitical Context	112
	Ideology and Illusion	115
	The Politics of Social Control	116
	The Ideology of Youth and Mass Education	120
	The Manufacture of Dissent	128
5	Complementary and the Social Control of Dissent	129
	The Principle of Complementarity	132
	Complementarity and Nationalism: An Example	143
	The Complementarity of Nationalism and Race in the United States	144
	Youth, Complementarity, and the Mass Media	146
6	Toward a New Reality for Youth	151
	Sweden as a Model	152
	Recommendations to Young People	158
	Notes	165
	Bibliography	188
	Index	203