Producing success

By Peter Demerath

Subjects: Students, Social stratification, Educational sociology, united states, Academic achievement, High schools, Social classes, united states, Middle class, Students, united states, Middle class, united states, Social conditions, Educational sociology

Description: 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 and their families.