Producing success [electronic resource] : the culture of personal advancement in an American high school / Peter Demerath.
Demerath, Peter.
2009
LC205 .D46 2009eb
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Title Producing success [electronic resource] : the culture of personal advancement in an American high school / Peter Demerath.
Author Demerath, Peter.
ISBN 9780226142425 (electronic bk.)
9780226142395 (alk. paper)
9780226142418 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Imprint Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xi, 208 p.)
Call Number LC205 .D46 2009eb
Note Description based on print version record.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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.

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