1. What do you think teenage popular culture and the prevalent social norms for adolescents tell us about who adolescents are and what it is like to

1.    What do you think teenage popular culture and the prevalent social norms for adolescents tell us about who adolescents are and what it is like to be an adolescent? How is this idea tied to the idea that adolescence is understood by social scientists as a term of transition? Do adolescents live in a culture of the "right now" or is it future and career based? Are teenagers free to become who they want to be or are they being pressured by financial considerations in very particular directions that are being presented as natural and inevitable? Is this what it means to live in the real world? Is there such a thing as the real world?