ISBN:
9780511793264
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (x, 267 pages)
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DDC:
305.2350973/090511
Keywords:
Alltag, Brauchtum
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Erziehung
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High school student orientation
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Teenagers / Life skills guides
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Teenagers / Education
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Adolescence
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Social influence
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High school students / Social life and customs / 21st century
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Schüler
;
Soziale Situation
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High school
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Electronic book
;
High school
;
Schüler
;
Soziale Situation
Abstract:
In American high schools, teenagers must navigate complex youth cultures that often prize being 'real' while punishing difference. Adults may view such social turbulence as a timeless, ultimately harmless rite of passage, but changes in American society are intensifying this rite and allowing its effects to cascade into adulthood. Integrating national statistics with interviews and observations from a single school, this book explores this phenomenon. It makes the case that recent macro-level trends, such as economic restructuring and technological change, mean that the social dynamics of high school can disrupt educational trajectories after high school; it looks at teenagers who do not fit in socially at school - including many who are obese or gay - to illustrate this phenomenon; and it crafts recommendations for parents, teachers and policy-makers about how to protect teenagers in trouble. The result is a story of adolescence that hits home with anyone who remembers high school
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DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511793264
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