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Author Hemmings, Annette B

Title Coming of Age in U.S. High Schools
Published Mahwah : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (254 pages)
Contents Preface; 1 New Age for Coming of Age; 2 Surface Depths; 3 Economic Domain: Il/licit Pursuit of Mobility; 4 Kinship Domain: Family (Dis)connections; 5 Religious Domain: Freedom of/From Religion; 6 Political Domain: Democracy and Domination; 7 Reaching Shore; Endnotes; References; Appendix; Author Index; Subject Index
Summary Coming of Age in U.S. High Schools: Economic, Kinship, Religious, and Political Crosscurrents takes readers into the lives of urban and suburban adolescents for a close-up look at how they navigate the conflicting discourses and disciplinary practices of American cultural crosscurrents that flow through economic, kinship, religious, and political domains of American life
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Subject High school seniors -- United States -- Social conditions -- Case studies
High schools -- United States -- Sociological aspects -- Case studies
Educational anthropology -- United States -- Case studies
Educational anthropology.
High schools -- Sociological aspects.
United States.
Genre/Form Case studies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781410609960
1410609960