01-12-2006
The Adolescent Society Revisited: Cultures, Crowds, Climates, and Status Structures in Seven Secondary Schools
Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Youth and Adolescence | Uitgave 6/2006
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The authors used data from seven schools in a metropolitan region to explore continuity and change in adolescent cultures and status structures; they identified six major types of status structures and explained variation among them in terms of characteristics of communities and schools. A key feature of the study is comparison of school climates, using both survey data and qualitative case studies that provide an interpretive context for the survey responses; this methodology allows a contextual level of analysis that is unavailable in either single-school ethnographies or large data sets that aggregate responses from individuals situated in many schools.