TY  - BOOK
AU  - Demerath,Peter
TI  - Producing success : : the culture of personal advancement in an American high school / 
SN  - 9780226142418 (pbk. : alk. paper)
AV  - LC 205 D376p 2009
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Chicago ; , London : 
PB  - The University of Chicago Press, 
KW  - Sociología de la educación
KW  - Estados Unidos
KW  - Escuelas secundarias
KW  - Rendimiento académico
KW  - Estudiantes
KW  - Condiciones sociales
KW  - Estratificación social
KW  - Clase media
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
ER  -