ABSTRACT
This chapter examines how notions of appropriateness and inappropriateness contribute to the misrecognising of the behaviour of young people. It finds form in the ‘helicoptering’ of parents and other adults protectively hovering over children and young people, motivated by their concept of an idealised child/young person. This is exemplified by the mythologising of Miley Cyrus ‘tween’ character ‘Hannah Montana’, venerated as the exemplar by which young people should be measured against. The chapter goes on to examine how the ossification of the habitus contributes to the process of misrecognition via the metaphor of the ‘aesthetic solera’. The effect of this ossification is to create within the habitus predisposition, tendency, propensity and inclination manifested through the concepts of ‘taste’ and ‘discernment’.
