The Tolerance Generation
Growing Up Online in the Anti-Bullying Era
$198.55
- Hardcover
288 pages
- Release Date
5 June 2026
Summary
Draws directly on insights from teens to reframe our understanding of bullying in the age of social media and why anti-bullying campaigns have been unsuccessful in combating it.
Fitting in and standing out in high school is an eternal rite of passage for youth. Increasingly, these struggles to establish and maintain hierarchies are labeled under the umbrella of “bullying.” This form of conflict is considered such a significant problem that all fifty states have passed anti-bullying le…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780226850115 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0226850110 |
| Author: | Sarah Miller |
| Publisher: | The University of Chicago Press |
| Imprint: | University of Chicago Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 5 June 2026 |
| Weight: | 594g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 23mm |
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“The Tolerance Generation makes an important contribution to understanding the lives of young people by focusing on their experiences with bullying and schools’ efforts to take this more seriously. Miller’s rich ethnographic account reveals the ways youth engage in, resist, and make sense of bullying as well as how schools respond to this with anti-bully programming. Miller offers a thought-provoking sociological analysis that complicates how we think about the digital lives of youth, conflict between them, and the role that schools play in addressing and producing bullying among students. The Tolerance Generation pushes us to consider what happens when we fail to account for the various inequalities youth grapple with in and outside of school in designing and implementing school anti-bullying programming.”
– Lorena Garcia, author of ‘Respect Yourself, Protect Yourself: Latina Girls and Sexual Identity’
“The Tolerance Generation is an urgent critique of the anti-bullying industry. Miller shows us that while adults were busy teaching ‘niceness,’ students were busy building digital counter-publics to survive a school culture that values the performance of tolerance over the pursuit of justice. It is a foundational text for understanding youth culture and schools today.”
– Matt Rafalow, author of ‘Digital Divisions: How Schools Create Inequality in the Tech Era’About The Author
Sarah Miller
Sarah Miller is assistant professor of sociology at Boston University.
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