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

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

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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...

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Main Author: Demerath, Peter
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2009.
Subjects:
Educational sociology > United States.
High schools > United States.
Academic achievement > United States.
Students > United States > Social conditions.
Social stratification > United States.
Middle class > United States.
Academic achievement.
Educational sociology.
High schools.
Middle class.
Social stratification.
Students > Social conditions.
United States.

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Call Number: LC205 .D46 2009eb
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