Producing Success

The Culture of Personal Advancement in an American High School

Автор: Peter Demerath

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Издател: The University of Chicago Press

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Middle- and upper-middle-class students continue to outpace those from less privileged backgrounds....

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Автор

Peter Demerath

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С меки корици

Издадена

2009

страници

224

EAN

9780226142418

ISBN

0226142418

Enbook ID

04543908

Издател

The University of Chicago Press

Теглоt

326

Размери

153 x 228 x 13

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Middle- and upper-middle-class students continue to outpace those from less privileged backgrounds. Most attempts to redress this inequality focus on the issue of access to financial resources, but, as "Producing Success" makes clear, the problem goes beyond mere economics. In this eye-opening study, Peter Demerath examines a typical suburban American high school to explain how some students get ahead. Demerath undertook four years of research at a midwestern high school to examine the mercilessly competitive culture that drives students to advance. "Producing Success" reveals the many ways the community's ideology of achievement plays out: students hone their work ethic and employ various strategies to succeed, from negotiating with teachers to cheating; parents relentlessly push their children while manipulating school policies to help them get ahead; and, administrators aid high performers in myriad ways, even naming over forty students 'valedictorians'. Yet, as Demerath shows, this unswerving commitment to individual advancement takes its toll, leading to student stress and fatigue, incivility and vandalism, and the alienation of the less successful. Insightful and candid, "Producing Success" is an often troubling account of the educationally and morally questionable results of the American culture of success.

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