This account of social life in three high schools combines a theoretical analysis and methodological awareness with a detailed study of social life in high schools. The emphasis is on how social relations differentially organize the meanning of the self for youths in different socioeconomic environments. The social psychology of school is a class social psychology and what is described are the cultural and social processes for which a class self is enacted in different high schools.

This account of social life in three high schools combines a theoretical analysis and methodological awareness with a detailed study of social life in high schools. The emphasis is on how social relations differentially organize the meanning of the self for youths in different socioeconomic environments. The social psychology of school is a class social psychology and what is described are the cultural and social processes for which a class self is enacted in different high schools.