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Urban Abstraction in a Central City High School.

Peer reviewed

Bettis, Pamela J. – Urban Review, 1996

A qualitative case study explored the perceptions of 37 urban secondary school students and 12 teachers about their school and community. Teachers and students worked in a landscape characterized as one of "urban abstraction," a term that helps explain the complex and contradictory fabric of current urban life. (SLD)

Descriptors: Alienation, Apathy, Case Studies, Cultural Isolation

Urban Students, Liminality, and the Postindustrial Context.

Peer reviewed

Bettis, Pamela J. – Sociology of Education, 1996

Explores the effects of deindustrialization and the shift to a postindustrial society on the hopes and dreams of urban high school students. Uses the concept of liminality to characterize urban environments as transitional intersections of socioeconomic change. Includes verbatim comments from urban youth about the efficacy of their future. (MJP)

Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Alienation, Anxiety, Coping