TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2008//
TI  - Too cool for school? Violence, peer status, and high school dropout
JO  - Social forces
A1  - Staff, Jeremy
A1  - Kreager, Derek A.
SP  - 445
EP  - 471
VL  - 87
IS  - 1
N2  - Research shows that peer status in adolescence is positively associated with school achievement and adjustment. However, subculture theories of juvenile delinquency and school-based ethnographies suggest that (1) disadvantaged boys are often able to gain some forms of peer status through violence and (2) membership in violent groups undermines educational attainment. Building on these ideas, we use peer network data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health) to examine whether peer status within highly violent groups increases male risks of high school dropout. Consistent with the subcultural argument, we find that disadvantaged boys with high status in violent groups are at much greater risks of high school dropout than other students.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0037-7732
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/sof.0.0068
ID  - ref1
ER  -