Leaving Home for College: Expectations for Selective Reconstruction of Self

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AUTOR(ES) David A. Karp , Lynda Lytle Holmstrom , Paul S. Gray
ANO 1998
TIPO Artigo
PERIÓDICO Symbolic Interaction
ISSN 0195-6086
E-ISSN 1533-8665
EDITORA Sage Publications (United States)
DOI 10.1525/si.1998.21.3.253
CITAÇÕES 10
ADICIONADO EM 2025-08-18
MD5 f68c1a00020d256e251fe4a3c93145d2

Resumo

This paper describes how 23 primarily upper‐middle‐class high school seniors anticipated identity changes as they prepared to leave home for college. The transition from high school to college is a period of 'liminality' during which students are structurally in between old and new statuses. We discuss how students anticipated change, planned to affirm certain of their identities, imagined creating new identities, and contemplated discovering unanticipated identities. Such interpretive effort must be understood in the context of the ambivalence they felt about leaving home and achieving independence. The data also provoke discussion of how social class membership might be implicated in people's ability to control identity change as they move through the life course.

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