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Article: The Culture of Adolescent Risk-Taking. (book reviews)

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Adolescence
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June 22, 1999
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LIGHTFOOT, Cynthia. New York: Guilford Press, 1997. 187pp. $35.00 (h), $16.95 (p).

An in-depth exploration of the relationship between adolescent risk-taking and peer group culture based on extensive interviews with teenagers themselves, this book shows that taking risks is a natural and necessary part of growing up. The author proposes that risks are declarations of the self, worn like badges of autonomy, or defiance, or group membership. With a broad interpretive approach locating human action within the ...

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