The Rise of the American Teenager

Typical adolescent behaviour is described as being rebellious, careless, and out of control. Some psychologists like G. Stanley Hall reasoned this behaviour with respect to nature or biological changes in the body. And others like Albert Bandura rejected this idea of “blaming biology.”

It is clear that there is this nature versus nurture debate aimed to explain this rowdy adolescent behaviour.

This award-winning essay discusses the social foundations of “teenage” history, and how it was different to be a “teenager” across history. Moreover, this in-depth study will help explain current social phenomena from legal emancipation from a parent to the birth of the “tweener” or pre-teen subcultural notion.