Sociologist Crosnoe Presenting April 10 on Challenges of High School

29 Mar 2013    

The University of Texas at Austin’s Robert Crosnoe will address how social marginalization affects teenagers’ development when he presents “Adolescence, Peers and the Challenges of High School” Wednesday, April 10 from 3:30-5 p.m. in the Nebraska Union’s Colonial Room.

Crosnoe will consider the issue from multiple perspectives, describing ethnographic research in a large high school and demographic research on national samples of adolescents. In doing so, he will capture the ways that ostracism – whether due to obesity, sexual orientation or more general reasons – can disrupt long-term trajectories of educational attainment regardless of academic abilities and family background.

Crosnoe’s presentation is adapted from his 2011 book “Fitting In, Standing Out: Navigating the Social Challenges of High School to Get an Education.” The event is free and open to the public.

As the Elsie and Stanley E. (Skinny) Adams, Sr. Centennial Professor in Liberal Arts at UT Austin, Crosnoe holds faculty positions in the university’s Department of Sociology, Department of Psychology, and Population Research Center. He received a doctorate in sociology from Stanford University.

Hosted by the Nebraska Center for Research on Children, Youth, Families and Schools, this UNL Distinguished Lecture is presented in partnership with the UNL Minority Health Disparities Initiative; the UNL Social and Behavioral Sciences Research Initiative; and the Nebraska Bullying Prevention and Intervention Initiative.

A video of Crosnoe’s presentation will appear on the CYFS web site by the end of April.