Producing success : the culture of personal advancement in an American high school /
Peter Demerath
- Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2009
- ix, 208 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Producing success -- Community, home, and school settings -- The Wilton way: middle-class culture and practice -- Parental support, interventions, and manipulations of policy -- The role of the school: institutional advantaging -- Student identity and practice -- Identities for control and success: the acquisition of psychological capital -- Teaching the "point-hungry" student: hypercredentialing in practice -- Costs of personal advancement -- "Generation stress" and school success -- Alienation, marginalization, and incivility -- Conclusions -- Appendix: WBHS 2002 student survey.
The result of four years at Midwestern "Wilton High," this book seeks to understand the merciless, competitive culture of an upper-middle-class American high school, showing the various things parents, students and community members do to secure different kinds of advantages for themselves and their families.
Sociología de la educación --Estados Unidos Escuelas secundarias --Estados Unidos Rendimiento académico --Estados Unidos Estudiantes --Condiciones sociales --Estados Unidos Estratificación social--Estados Unidos Clase media --Estados Unidos