Fitting In, Standing Out: Navigating The Social Challenges Of High School To Get An Education

Crosnoe, Robert

ISBN 10: 0521182034 / ISBN 13: 9780521182034

Published by Cambridge University Press, 2011

About this Item

Makes the case that the social dynamics and turbulence of high school can disrupt educational trajectories after high school. Num Pages: 280 pages, 22 b/w illus. 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSP2; JMC; JNLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 420. . 2011. Illustrated. paperback. . . . .

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Fitting In, Standing Out: Navigating The Social Challenges Of High School To Get An Education
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521182034
• ISBN 13: 9780521182034
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Robert Crosnoe is a professor in the Department of Sociology and (by courtesy) the Department of Psychology as well as a faculty research associate at the Population Research Center at the University of Texas, Austin. His research focuses on the ways in which the educational pathways of children and adolescents are connected to their general health, development and personal relationships and how these connections can be leveraged to explain demographic inequalities in educational and socioeconomic attainment. This research has been funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and by young scholar awards from the William T. Grant Foundation and the Foundation for Child Development. Dr Crosnoe has published more than 70 books and articles in journals such as Developmental Psychology, Child Development, the American Educational Research Journal and the American Sociological Review. He has also won awards for early career research contributions from the Society for Research in Child Development, the Society for the Study of Human Development and the Children and Youth Section of the American Sociological Association.