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4、ndd ii9780230622012_01_prex.indd ii9/30/2010 6:23:54 PM9/30/2010 6:23:54 PM The Multiracial Urban High School Fearing Peers and Trusting Friends Susan Rakosi Rosenbloom 9780230622012_01_prex.indd iii9780230622012_01_prex.indd iii9/30/2010 6:23:54 PM9/30/2010 6:23:54 PM THE MULTIRACIAL URBAN HIGH SCH
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7、Macmillan are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN: 978 0 230 62201 2 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Rosenbloom, Susan Rakosi. The multiracial urban high school : fearing peers and trusting friends / Susan Rakosi Rosenbl
8、oom. p. cm.(Palgrave studies in urban education series) ISBN 9780230622012 (hardback) 1. Minority high school studentsUnited StatesInterviews. 2. Urban high schoolsUnited StatesCase studies. 3. Interpersonal relations in adolescenceUnited StatesCase studies. I. Title. LC3731.R67 2010 373.1829dc22 20
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10、:55 PM9/30/2010 6:23:55 PM Contents Series Editors Foreword vii One Rethinking High School as a Relational Journey 1 Two Immigrant Dream and/or Educational Delusion? 43 Three “Its a Bad School Because of the Kids” 67 Four Listening to Friendships: Longitudinal Case Studies of Friendship PatternsIsid
11、ora, Reginald, Mei Ling, and Lena 93 Five “Its Like Im in a Stereotype” 131 (Co-authored with Niobe Way) Six What If You Cant Learn Anywhere? Trapped by School Choice 151 Seven Peer Power Undermined 173 Index 185 9780230622012_01_prex.indd v9780230622012_01_prex.indd v9/30/2010 6:23:55 PM9/30/2010 6
12、:23:55 PM This page intentionally left blank Series Editors Foreword The Multiracial Urban High School: Fearing Peers and Trusting Friends is an important addition to research on high school peer networks that for the most part has focused on individual choices and used a social psy- chological fram
13、ework. Susan Rakosi Rosenbloom provides an important corrective to this literature by using a sociological analysis that argues that peer networks and friendships are the outcomes of school organizational structures and are deeply embedded in social class and race relations. Moreover, she relates sc
14、hool structure to the larger social and economic structures in which social class and racial stratification are rooted. Rosenbloom has provided a detailed and nuanced analysis of the ways in which organizational context and school processes affect how high school students choose friends and how thes
15、e friendships result in powerful peer networks that can either support or limit academic success and life chances. More importantly, she demonstrates how peer networks are crucial to the development of social capital, which, accord- ing to both Bourdieu and Coleman, albeit from very different theore
16、ti- cal perspectives, is central to social mobility (Coleman) or social class reproduction (Bourdieu). Further, through an analysis of the social class and racial foundation of these peer networks, Rosenbloom pro- vides support for research on the negative effects of segregation, includ- ing work by Gary Orfield at the UCLA Civil Rights Project (formerly at Harvard), Roslyn Mickelson, and Amy Stuart Wells. Through a detailed theoretically and me