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Producing success

Peter Demerath

2009208 pagesabout 3–5 hours
2009
first published
  • 2009University of Chicago Press · ENGISBN 9780226142425
  • 2009The University of Chicago Press · 208 pages · ENGISBN 9780226142395
  • 2010University of Chicago Press · ENGISBN 9781282445550

The result of four years at Midwestern "Wilton High," this book seeks to understand the merciless, competitive culture of an upper-middle-class American high school, showing the various things parents, students and community members do to secure different kinds of advantages for themselves and their families.

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