Mixed Messages
Norms and Social Control around Teen Sex and Pregnancy
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 6 April 2017
- ISBN 9780190633288
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages296 pages
- Size 231x152x20 mm
- Weight 408 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
American teenagers hear mixed messages about sex and sexuality. Struggles over teen sexuality norms and their enforcement are a major cultural battleground. What are these norms, and what makes them effective or ineffective?
MoreLong description:
Sex is bad. Unprotected sex is a problem. Having a baby would be a disaster. Abortion is a sin. Teenagers in the United States hear conflicting messages about sex from everyone around them. How do teens understand these messages?
In Mixed Messages, Stefanie Mollborn examines how social norms and social control work through in-depth interviews with college students and teen mothers and fathers, revealing the tough conversations teeangers just can't have with adults. Delving into teenagers' complicated social worlds Mollborn argues that by creating informal social sanctions like gossip and exclusion and formal communication such as sex education, families, peers, schools, and communities strategize to gain control over teens' behaviors. However, while teens strategize to keep control, they resist the constraints of the norms, revealing the variety of outcomes that occur beyond compliance or deviance.
By proving that the norms existing today around teen sex are ineffective, failing to regulate sexual behavior, and instead punishing teens that violate them, Mollborn calls for a more thoughtful and consistent dialogue between teens and adults, emphasizing messages that will lead to more positive health outcomes.
Stefanie Mollborn's Mixed Messages is a significant contribution to this body of work and presents a new and different lens through which to view and understand teenage sexual behavior decision making in the 21st century — the lens of norms. The ways in which Mollborn weaves these personal experiences and reflections into a rich tapestry of knowledge keep us engaged and wanting to turn the page. The way in which she places her tapestry on theoretical hangers and supports then enables us to have a clearer understanding of the complex picture she presents and leaves us able to ask yet more questions and search for yet more answers.
Table of Contents:
Preface
Chapter 1: Norms and Social Control of Teen Sexuality
Chapter 2: Theorizing About Norms and Social Control
Chapter 3: "Don't Ask, Don't Tell": Sexuality Norms and Social Control at Home
Chapter 4: "What Are People Going to Think?": The Influence of Close Friends and Peers
Chapter 5: "Scare It into Us": School Norms and Social Control
Chapter 6: "Carrying a Stigma": Communities and Teen Sexuality
Chapter 7: "Say One Thing and Do Another": Teens React to Norms and Social Control
Chapter 8: Conclusion
Appendix: Research Methods
Notes
References
Index
