"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...

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Main Author:	Crosnoe, Robert (Author)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge [England] ; New York Cambridge University Press 2011
Subjects:	High school student orientation Teenagers > Life skills guides Teenagers > Education Adolescence Social influence High school students > Social life and customs > 21st century Schüler Soziale Situation High school
Summary:	"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 policymakers about how to protect teenagers in trouble. The end result is a story of adolescence that hits home with anyone who remembers high school"--
Physical Description:	x, 267 p. ill