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Publication Date: 1997
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High School in Transition: Community, School, and Peer Group in Abilene, Kansas, 1939.
Modell, John; Alexander, J. Trent
History of Education Quarterly, v37 n1 p1-24 Spr 1997
Places the changing expectations and experiences of student life in a 1939 Abilene, Kansas, high school within the context of general institutional changes occurring at high schools. Maintains that schools reproduced the existing social structure through a variety of mechanisms. Notes the differences of expectations between male and female students. (MJP)
Descriptors: American Dream, Educational Change, Educational History, Educational Sociology, High Schools, Institutional Mission, Outcomes of Education, Peer Groups, Peer Relationship, Role of Education, School Community Relationship, School Culture, School Role, Social Change, Social Integration, Socialization, Student Characteristics
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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