◎contents Part 1 : the prolongation of youth 1. The discovery of youth Nature : adolescence as a product of biology Psychological views : a biological afflication Problems with nature approaches Nature : adolescence as a product of culture Functionalist views : industrialization Subcultural views : institutional regulation Political economy views : the state and capital Problems with nurture approaches A speculative interdisciplinary approach 2. The liabilities of youth in advanced industrial society Credentialism and education inflation "Cooling out the mark" The new service worker Statistical indicators of change Socioeconomuc changes Changes in emotional experiences The disenfrachisement of youth 3. The conquest of youth The psychological basis of identity Adolescence as a moratorium Identity manipulation Gender intensification Coming of age in the wake of gender intensification Part two : the political economy of youth 4. Ideology and the politics of social control The manufacture of consent The ideology of youth Language and ideology The macropoliical context Ideology and illusion The politics of social control The ideology of youth and mass education The manufacture of of dissent 5. Complementarity and the social control of dissent The principle of complementarity Complementarity and nationalism : an example The complementarity of nationalism and race in the united states Youth, complementarity, and the mass media 6. Toward a new reality for youth Sweden as a model Recommendations to young people index