Dorothy C. Holland

William S. Lachicotte, Jr.

Debra Skinner

Carole Cain

This text addresses the central problem in anthropological theory of the late 1990s - the paradox that humans are both products of social discipline and creators of remarkable improvisation.

Identity and Agency in Cultural Worlds

Margaret A. Eisenhart

Is romance more important to women in college than grades are? Why do so many women enter college with strong academic backgrounds and firm career goals but leave with dramatically scaled-down ambitions? Dorothy C. Holland and Margaret A. Eisenhart expose a pervasive "culture of romance" on campus: a high-pressure peer system that propels women into a world where their attractiveness to men counts most.

Women, Achievement, and College Culture

Educated in Romance

Bradley A. Levinson

Douglas E. Foley

Examines the ways in which cultural practices and knowledges are produced in and out of schools around the world.

Critical Ethnographies of Schooling and Local Practice

Cultural Production of the Educated Person, The

The Cultural Production of the Educated Person

Dorothy C. Holland

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