ABSTRACT
Reprinted from The New York Times Magazine, November 2, 1969. Copyright © 1969 by The New York Times Company. Bennett Berger is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Davis. He has long had an interest in youth and has written extensively on the sociology of adolescence. His most recent research has involved him in intensive studies of communal living. In addition he is the author of a classic study of suburbanization and the myths of suburbia, Working Class Suburb (University of California Press, 1969).
