High School Subcultures and the Adult World.

Cohen, Jere

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ERIC Number: EJ213664

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Publication Date: 1979

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High School Subcultures and the Adult World.

Cohen, Jere

Adolescence, v14 n55 p491-502 Fall 1979

A new factor-analytic method for measuring student subcultures was developed and applied to data collected by James Coleman at Newlawn High School. The three subcultures identified were precisely the ones posited by Burton Clark: the academic, the fun, and the delinquent subcultures. (Author/KC)

Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Adolescents, Adults, Delinquent Behavior, High School Students, Individual Characteristics, Parent Background, Social Life, Social Values, Student Subcultures, Subcultures

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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