"Yes, your fears are correct. He is disturbed, whether it's diagnosable or not:" risk discourse in parenting guides

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dc.contributor.authorKonecny, Daniel
dc.contributor.supervisorLaurendeau, Jason
dc.date.accessioned2018-01-22T18:32:56Z
dc.date.available2018-01-22T18:32:56Z
dc.date.issued2017-12-18
dc.degree.levelMastersen_US
dc.description.abstractParenting guides are illustrative of the current ethos of parenting and provide a rich site of examination due to the intersecting discourses that shape knowledge regarding ‘proper’ parenting. In this thesis, I offer a discourse analysis on the parenting guides Yes, Your Teen is Crazy (2003) by Michael Bradley, Brainstorm (2013) by Daniel Siegel, and the parenting website Empowering Parents in order to illuminate how discourses of risk (re)produce and naturalize assumptions of parenting and adolescence. I contend that each text utilizes risk to define adolescents as an inherent threat to themselves and their communities if left unchecked and situates parents as the shepherds for adolescence, shepherds who are subject to responsibility and blame. Both adolescence and parenting are produced as objects of expert knowledge that position adulthood as the normative foil to adolescence.en_US
dc.embargoNoen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10133/5009
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.proquest.subject0628en_US
dc.proquest.subject0700en_US
dc.proquest.subject0626en_US
dc.proquestyesYesen_US
dc.publisherLethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Dept. of Sociologyen_US
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of Sociologyen_US
dc.publisher.facultyArts and Scienceen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesThesis (University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science)en_US
dc.subjectAdolescenceen_US
dc.subjectFamiliesen_US
dc.subjectParentingen_US
dc.subjectParenting Handbooks, manuals, etcen_US
dc.subjectProblem youthen_US
dc.title"Yes, your fears are correct. He is disturbed, whether it's diagnosable or not:" risk discourse in parenting guidesen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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