Becoming Somebody: Toward A Social Psychology Of School [Hardcover]

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.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.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.Philip Wexler, Warren Crichlow, June Kern, Rebecca MatusewiczUS? P.Wexler 1992