(Donaldson, Scott. The Suburban Myth. New York: Columbia University Press, 1969. Print.)
"Conformity is the scourge of the suburbs, the critical indictment claims. The suburbs are peopled by automata who do not think because they never had to think. Early in life, they learn how to adjust to others, to become 'full members,' and degree of adjustment constitutes the measure of success." (105) In the adolescent, the drive toward conformity comes up against the spirit of individualism. The adolescent defines himself against the conformity of his parents, against the conformity of his childhood, and even against the conformity of his peers. For this reason, the adolescent seems to offer a fruitful site for a certain resistance. Even though this individualism is, in the long run, is largely reincorporated, it exists in the present moment of adolescence with a degree of autonomy.
