Becoming Somebody: Toward A Social Psychology Of School

by Philip Wexler, Warren Crichlow, June Kern, Rebecca Matusewicz

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781135723255
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/21/2005
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	172
File size:	530 KB

About the Author

Philip Wexler, Warren Crichlow, June Kern, Rebecca Matusewicz

Table of Contents

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.