Coming of age in the bubble: Suburban adolescents' use of a spatial metaphor as a symbolic boundary

Symbolic Interaction

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 244-264

  Kato, Yuki ^a  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Class identity; Space and place; Suburb; Symbolic boundaries; Teenagers adolescents; Urban sociology

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955681032     PISSN: 01956086     EISSN: 15338665     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/si.2011.34.2.244     Document Type: Article

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