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Publication Date: 1970
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Status Configurations and Cigarette Smoking in a Junior High School
Newman, Ian M.
J Sch Health, 40, 1, 28-31, 70 Jan
Results of participant observation study of eighty students indicates that smoking plays important role in determining school social status. Lack of such realization by establishment, and call for non smoking ideal student model who often is actually a smoker, create contradiction in moral organization of school, recognizable only to other students. (Author/CJ)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Attitudes, Group Structure, Junior High School Students, Peer Groups, Smoking, Social Status, Social Values
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