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Paula S. Fass’s 1977 social history, The Damned and the Beautiful: American Youth in the 1920s , argues that the era saw the emergence of a distinct "peer society" driven by industrialization and expanded education. Fass posits that youth replaced parental authority with a conformist peer culture, utilizing new social norms, slang, and behaviors to define their generation. Detailed analysis of the text is available through Goodreads . The Damned and the Beautiful: American Youth in the 1920's