Karp, David, Lynda Lytle Holmstrom, and Paul S. Gray. [1998] 2005. "Leaving Home for College: Expectations for Selective Reconstruction of Self". Pp. 51-57 in Understanding Society, 2nd ed., edited by Margaret L. Andersen, Kim Logio, and Howard Taylor. Belmont, CA: Thomson Learning, Inc.
Every year, thousands of American high school students prepare to leave their homes for college. But in spite of being raised to be fervently independent, both they and their parents are ambivalent about this transition. It turns out that achieving independence in America involves complex social psychological processes pertaining to identity construction and group membership.
The students interviewed for this study were all upper-middle-class; all expected to go to college, and their parents expected nothing less. All of them "saw college as the time for discovering who they really were", as the time for abandoning past identities that they disliked and assuming new ones that they did.
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