Producing success
Subtitle: the culture of personal advancement in an American high school
By: Peter Demerath.
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press; University of Chicago Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780226142395; 9780226142418
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
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Producing success; title: Community, home, and school settings; title: The Wilton way: middle-class culture and practice; title: Parental support, interventions, and manipulations of policy; title: The role of the school: institutional advantaging; title: Student identity and practice; title: Identities for control and success: the acquisition of psychological capital; title: Teaching the "point-hungry" student: hypercredentialing in practice; title: Costs of personal advancement; title: "Generation stress" and school success; title: Alienation, marginalization, and incivility; title: Conclusions; title: Appendix: WBHS 2002 student survey.