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Perspectives from Cultural Studies offer some different views on the notion of adolescence as not simply a culturally constructed, or culturally variable notion, but one that plays a specific role, via various discourse formations in a lot of complex ideologies of contemporary society. I harbor a profound skepticism of efforts to naturalize, much less universalize, this notion, particularly if they do not include a critically reflexive analysis of such matters, including in the discourse of psychology itself. For some pointers, one starting place is: Moje, Elizabeth Birr & van Helden, Caspar J. L. (2005). Doing popular culture: Troubling adolescent discourses. L. P. Stevens and J. A. Vadeboncoeur, (Eds.). Re/Constructing „the adolescent”: Sign, symbol and body. New York: Peter Lang. -- not just the chapter, but the whole volume. JAY. Jay Lemke Senior Research Scientist Laboratory for Comparative Human Cognition University of California - San Diego 9500 Gilman Drive La Jolla, California 92093-0506 Professor (Adjunct status 2009-11) School of Education University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI 48109 www.umich.edu/~jaylemke Professor Emeritus City University of New York __________________________________________ _____ xmca mailing list xmca@weber.ucsd.edu http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca