@article{351160,
      author = {Crosnoe, Robert.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/351160},
      title = {Fitting in, standing out : navigating the social  challenges of high school to get an education /},
      publisher = {Cambridge University Press,},
      abstract = {"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"--Provided  by publisher.},
      recid = {351160},
      pages = {x, 267 p. :},
      address = {Cambridge ;},
      year = {2011},
}