Title: Coming of age in U.S. high schools : economic, kinship, religious, and political crosscurrents /
Authors: Hemmings, Annette B.
Publisher: L. Erlbaum Associates,
Year: 2004
Subjects: High school seniors United States Social conditions Case studies.; High schools United States Sociological aspects Case studies.; Educational anthropology United States Case studies.
Abstract: "Coming of Age in U.S. High Schools takes readers into the lives of urban and suburban adolescents for a close-up look at how they navigate the conflicting discourses and disciplinary practices of American cultural crosscurrents that flow through economic, kinship, religious, and political domains of American life. The book is distinctive in how it combines classic anthropological theory and contemporary post-anthropological perspectives into an innovative framework for understanding adolescent coming-of-age processes in U.S. public high schools. Coming of age as conceived as a dual process of community integration and identity formation."
Contents: New age for coming of age -- Surface depths -- Economic domain: Il/licit pursuit of mobility -- Kinship domain: family (dis)connections -- Religious domain: freedom of/from religion -- Political domain: democracy and domination -- Reaching shore.