Abstract
Sociologist John Barron Mays begins his 1965 book, The Young Pretenders: A Study of Teenage Culture in Contemporary Society, with an explanation of its title: Young people today are, in fact, pretenders in both senses of the word. They are youthful heirs waiting to come into their inheritance. … But they are still mere understudies rehearsing in the wings for the parts they will one day have to play on the adult stage. They strike first one pose, then another. They toy with the props to find out what fits and becomes them most; what external façade is most engaging; what stance or swagger attracts the requisite amount of attention.(7)
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