High school peer crowds are fundamental components of adolescent development with influences on short- and long-term life trajectories. This study provides the perspectives of contemporary college students regarding their recent high school social landscapes, contributing to current research and theory on the social contexts of high school. This…

The spread of Islamophobia in the U.S. positioned Muslims as different and inferior to American society and racialized their experiences by subjecting them to narratives of prejudices and stereotypes. This postcolonial interview study examined how Muslim American high school students conceptualized and negotiated their racialized identities within…

This research investigates the ways in which three African American high school girls interpret and challenge racialized and sexualized media representations of their race, class, and gender within music videos. The authors assert that these students' ability to counter stereotypes is a reflection of their cultural orientations, as well as their…

Background: Great efforts are made to develop and implement contact activities for groups in conflict, yet studies of effects of planned contact interventions yielded mixed results. Previous attempts to explain why contact interventions do not fulfill their promise focused on the contact itself. However, the main focus of the present study was the…

This article examines African American, Latina/o, and White high school students' assertions of cultural and ethnic identities as they struggle for their educational rights in Los Angeles and Philadelphia. In doing so, this study illustrates the ways in which alternative spaces outside the formal context of schools facilitate expressions,…

Considers the origins and traits of three common student subcultures: the academics, the delinquents, and the jocks. Suggests steps the school can take to prevent these groups from coming into conflict or from over-influencing their own members. Condensed from "Today's Education," April-May 1980, pp30GS-32GS. (Editor/SJL)

Surveyed the career-planning attitudes of Chicano and White students (N=494). Results suggest that Chicano students were generally less realistic than Whites and had culture-specific beliefs about career planning. (Author)

In 2004, a group of high school students at a private American school in Mexico City started the first gay-straight alliance in Mexico. A small group of conservative parents and a Mormon principal organized in opposition. This paper details the students' struggle to keep their club and offers lessons learned about student activism, school change,…

Analyses of data from the Youth in Transition panel study of boys in 87 public high schools suggest that school-level values reflecting a subculture of violence have substantial effects on interpersonal violence and other forms of delinquency, and that the school subculture of violence operates through a social control process. An academically…

Two imaginary success-oriented high school boys, one lower class and one upper middle class, discuss their respective attitudes toward school, friends, college, career goals, parents' and society's expectations, and their perceptions of other social classes. (SF)

Author concludes that schools need to maintain a socioeconomic balance--with busing if necessary--so that a critical mass of anti-school values cannot overwhelm the student-culture and end all meaningful learning. (Author/SP)

Examines the social system developed by students in their high schools as well as the scope and functioning of the status system itself. (Author/RK)

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)