1st Edition

Becoming Somebody Toward A Social Psychology Of School

    176 Pages
    by Routledge

    176 Pages
    by Routledge

    Offers a social psychological account of social life in three high schools, combining theoretical analysis with reflective methodology. The emphasis of the book is on how social relations have varying effects on the feeling of self in young people from different socioeconomic environments.

    Horizon; working class - nobody cares; professional middle class - success without society; the urban under-class - I am somebody; society in reverse - microdynamics of social destruction; becoming somebody - the class self; horizon; no note on method.

    Biography

    Philip Wexler, Warren Crichlow, June Kern, Rebecca Matusewicz