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Direct linkMerten, Don E. – Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 2005
Transitions are a significant aspect of the American educational system and therefore of interest to educational anthropology. Based on a two-year ethnographic study, this article explores the transitions between grade school and junior high and between childhood and teenhood for white girls in a privileged suburban community, and examines why the…
Descriptors: Suburbs, Females, Whites, Adolescents
