Rampant teen sex

Teen sexuality and the promise of happiness as obstacles to re-thinking adolescence

Bibliographic Data

ID12601025
AuthorsSophia Tatiana Sarigianides (0000-0001-7703-7539, Westfield State University, corresponding author)
Year2014
Volume17
Issue8
Pages1061-1076
Publication date2014-02-24
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Youth Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1367-6261 • E-ISSN: 1469-9680
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13676261.2014.888406
OpenAlexW1998591728
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited17

This article shows how efforts to introduce experienced teachers to theories of adolescence as a construct become stymied when such re-conceptualizations of youth included views of youth as sexual. Though re-theorizations of adolescence as a cultural construct potentially affect and disrupt a wide range of traits about adolescence, the trait that posed the greatest obstacle to considering a widely different way of viewing young people was imagining them as sexual. Part of the challenge of rethinking adolescence was detangling conceptions of sexually innocent youth from promises of the happiness to come from a life lived according to social norms that include youths' sexual innocence. Data are analyzed by following teachers' ‘felt investments’ to ideas about youth, as well as affective ‘jumps’ in their reactions to note when teachers felt vulnerable due to what appeared to be contested ideas about youth and about happiness. Data from the beginning of a seven-month study focuses on how teachers respond to theory and literature that challenges adolescent stereotypes

Affect (linguistics · Construct (python library · Developmental psychology · Happiness · Human sexuality · Innocence · Sociology · Trait · Youth studies · Gender Roles and Identity Studies · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Psychology · Social Psychology · Youth Development and Social Support

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