Actions for Producing success : the culture of personal advancement in an American high school

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Producing success : the culture of personal advancement in an American high school / Peter Demerath

Author
Demerath, Peter
Published
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009.
Physical Description
xi, 208 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

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Contents
Introduction: Producing success -- Community, home, and school settings. The Wilton way: middle-class culture and practice -- Parental support, intervention, and policy manipulation -- 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.
Summary
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.
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9780226142395 (cloth : alk. paper)
0226142396 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780226142418 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0226142418 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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