TY  - BOOK
AU  - Crosnoe,Robert
TI  - Fitting In, Standing Out: Navigating the Social Challenges of High School to Get an Education 
SN  - 9780511793264 (ebook)
AV  - HQ796 .C87 2011
U1  - 305.2350973/090511 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - High school student orientation
KW  - Adolescence
KW  - Social influence
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016)
N2  - 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 policy-makers about how to protect teenagers in trouble. The result is a story of adolescence that hits home with anyone who remembers high school
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511793264
ER  -