Respect. Easy to ask for. Difficult to receive. All Evan Snyderman wants is to be respected, but the kids at his Clairemont, Illinois high school refuse to give it to him or his five like-minded friends and it's all based on one thing: their LABEL And the most popular kids in the high school, the "goodies," are trying their best to make sure they don't get it either. So, when Evan decides to run for student council in order to even the playing field of fairness, all hell breaks out and it will take everything Evan and his friends can muster to survive after Evan tries to get a longstanding and endearing tradition removed from the high school. And since the old guard refuses to cede to his request, they will do whatever it takes to maintain the status-quo, even if that involves mind games, threats and physical altercations. How long will Evan last and how hard will he fight until he wins the respect he so desperately wants?

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In a kind of social tour of sympathy, Candace Clark reveals that the emotional experience we call sympathy has a history, logic, and life of its own. Although sympathy may seem to be a natural, reflexive reaction, people are not born knowing when, for whom, and in what circumstances sympathy is appropriate. Rather, they learn elaborate, highly specific rules--different rules for men than for women--that guide when to feel or display sympathy, when to claim it, and how to accept it. Using extensive interviews, cultural artifacts, and "intensive eavesdropping" in public places, such as hospitals and funeral parlors, as well as analyzing charity appeals, blues lyrics, greeting cards, novels, and media reports, Clark shows that we learn culturally prescribed rules that govern our expression of sympathy.
"Clark's . . . research methods [are] inventive and her glimpses of U.S. life revealing. . . . And you have to love a social scientist so respectful of Miss Manners."--Clifford Orwin, "Toronto Globe and Mail"
"Clark offers a thought-provoking and quite interesting etiquette of sympathy according to which we ought to act in order to preserve the sympathy credits we can call on in time of need."--"Virginia Quarterly Review"