Adolescents often behave much like members of an old-fashioned aristocracy. They maintain private rituals, which they often do not really understand themselves. They are extremely conservative in their dress and tastes, but the conventions to which they adhere are purely those of their own social group; they try to ignore the norms of the larger society if these conflict with their own.


The Vanishing Adolescent (1959)

Edgar Z. Friedenberg Quotes

Adolescents often behave much like members of an old-fashioned aristocracy. They maintain private rituals, which they often do not really understand...

Adolescents often behave much like members of an old-fashioned aristocracy. They maintain private rituals, which they often do not really understand...

Adolescents often behave much like members of an old-fashioned aristocracy. They maintain private rituals, which they often do not really understand...

Adolescents often behave much like members of an old-fashioned aristocracy. They maintain private rituals, which they often do not really understand...