From Nerds to Normals: The Recovery of Identity among Adolescents from Middle School to High School

Dynamics of Inclusion and Exclusion in Preadolescent Cliques

“…Other studies in this group look at the influence of structural characteristics of classrooms and schools, such as size or organization (Dawe 1934; Gump and Friesen 1964;Hallinan 1979;Wicker 1969), how students' shared interests create bonds (Cusik 1973), and the influence of weak social skills (the social skill deficit hypothesis) (Asher and Renshaw 1981;Gottman, Gonso, and Rasmussen 1975;Kinney 1993;Oden and Asher 1977;Putallaz and Gottman 1981) on children's ability to form and be accepted into friendship groups.…”

Predictors of the Drop in School Marks in Secondary School: Evidence for Effects of Students’ Socio-Demographic Background

“…For example, Kinney (1993) could show that low-accepted middle school students found more options for entrance and acceptance in high school, and thus benefitted socially from the transition. To look at transition processes as a stimulating event for student development rather than a problem has also been encouraged by Bronfenbrenner (1977).…”

Movement without mobility: Adolescent status hierarchies and the contextual limits of cumulative advantage

“…Thus, rather than adding increasingly more ties over time, as in preferential attachment models, we expect people with higher status to lose status in subsequent time points, both in relative and absolute terms. 10 The model does not directly predict the cycles of status found in adolescent ethnographies (Eder, 1985;Kinney, 1993), but the loss of status at the top does imply that mobility is possible: the more the status hierarchy is compressed, the more likely that idiosyncratic changes will alter the status rankings. The shrinking inequality and status mobility predicted by our model are difficult to reconcile, however, with the widespread perception that social status is relatively stable and mobility the exception (Bukowski and Newcomb, 1984;Eder and Kinney, 1995).…”