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Publication Date: 1996
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Urban Students, Liminality, and the Postindustrial Context.
Bettis, Pamela J.
Sociology of Education, v69 n2 p105-125 Apr 1996
Explores the effects of deindustrialization and the shift to a postindustrial society on the hopes and dreams of urban high school students. Uses the concept of liminality to characterize urban environments as transitional intersections of socioeconomic change. Includes verbatim comments from urban youth about the efficacy of their future. (MJP)
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Alienation, Anxiety, Coping, Economic Change, Expectation, High School Students, Individual Power, Industrialization, Life Satisfaction, Quality of Life, Racial Relations, Self Actualization, Social Change, Social Indicators, Urban Culture, Urban Environment, Urban Schools, Well Being
Publication Type: Reports - Descriptive; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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