Tuesday, August 16, 2011

1927



"It is said that little girls want the same thrill in their reading that is so persistently sought among adolescent gang boys - 'tales of blood and thunder, detective stories, and mystery yarns.' This seems to show that boys and girls are much more alike than the traditional social patterns would indicate."

-Frederic M. Thrasher, The Gang, U. Chicago Press, 1927/1936

We need sociologists to tell us this?

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