Social Structure

With over 120,000 schools in the US, it comes as no surprise that the social structures in different high schools vary tremendously. Factors such as location, socioeconomic status, academic performance and school size hold great importance in what the high school social environment looks like.  Cindy Su, 9, previously a Chippewa Middle School student, attends Phillips Exeter Academy in New...

The science behind high school social structure is not concrete and definite, as many factors, some that are still unknown, contribute to how different high school students interact with each other. Daniel A. McFarland, a professor of education at Stanford Graduate School of Education, attributed human instinct to have desires for familiarity, control, dominance, and security for social support to ...