Who is American Media and Social Scientists from From Front Porch to Back Seat: Courtship in Twentieth-century America and what is their importance?

Beth Bailey is relentless in her emphasis on how American media and social scientists affected the development of courtship throughout the twentieth century. It was American media that helped to create a national youth culture and it was through the national media that youth developed a common identity based on public perceptions about what was popular, normal, and so on.