Producing success : the culture of personal advancement in an American high school /
The result of four years at Midwestern "Wilton High," this book seeks to understand the merciless, competitive culture of an upper-middle-class American high school, showing the various things parents, students and community members do to secure different kinds of advantages for themselves...
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2009.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Producing success
- Community, home, and school settings. The Wilton way: middle-class culture and practice
- Parental support, intervention, and policy manipulation
- 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.