Reddit mentions of The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth: Popularity, Quirk Theory, and Why Outsiders Thrive After High School

I know Martin King Whyte talks some about the changes in dating in the United States in relationship to larger societal tends.

You also may want to look into the book The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth by Alexandra Robbins. This is focused much more on cliques in high school and how the type of characteristics that lead to success in life after high school are the same characteristics that cause high schoolers to be excluded.

Also, you may want to look into some of Cherlin's work on the history of the family and the de-institutionalization of the family.

I've gone back to school with the goal of becoming a middle school teacher and recently read The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth: Popularity, Quirk Theory, and Why Outsiders Thrive After High School. What shocked me was not so much the horror stories regarding the students so much as those concerning staff. Are cliques as prevalent among teachers as they are among students?

I'm reading this book called Geeks shall inherit the Earth and it's a great insight onto how kids are treated and how adolescent society functions when in school. The author summarizes it by basically saying that kids make fun of each someone because they fail to conform to standards set by other kids. Traits that make a kid "unpopular" are usually praised in the world outside of school