the culture of personal advancement in an American high school Demerath, Peter creator text ilu Chicago London The University of Chicago Press 2009 monographic eng

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ix, 208 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm 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. 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. Peter Demerath Includes bibliographical references and index. Sociología de la educación Estados Unidos Escuelas secundarias Estados Unidos Rendimiento académico Estados Unidos Estudiantes Condiciones sociales Estados Unidos Estratificación social Estados Unidos Clase media Estados Unidos LC 205 D376p 2009 9780226142418 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0226142418 (pbk. : alk. paper) 251027 20251107131541.0 eng