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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Preface: Fifteen Years Later -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Fifteen Years Later -- What's Old -- What's New -- Part I: The Puzzle and the Tools -- Introduction -- The Questions -- Some Headlines -- What's New? -- Warning Labels -- Chapter One: Why Do They Behave Like That? -- Are Parents Important? -- Are Brains Important? -- Is Social Class Important? -- Are Schools Important? -- Are Peers Important? -- Status Groups: Adolescence as a Caste System -- Why is Status so Important to Teenagers? -- Chapter Two: The Tools for Understanding -- Social Formations: Combination, Separation, and Linking -- The Theory of Status Relations -- Hierarchy and Pluralism: Ideal-Types -- Data and Methods -- Part II: Explaining Teens' Behavior -- Chapter Three: Fitting In, Standing Out, and Keeping Up -- Some Crowds and their Rankings -- Aspects of Conformity and Elaboration -- The Flexibility of Norms and Status Symbols -- Coolness and Boredom -- Chapter Four: Steering Clear, Hanging Out, and Hooking Up -- Instrumental and Expressive Relationships -- Types of Associations and Relationships -- The Effect of Time and Place on Associations -- Chapter Five: Exchanges, Labels, and Put-Downs -- Inalienability -- Inexpansibility -- Part III: Why Schools Vary -- Chapter Six: The Pluralistic High School -- Pluralism -- The Research Setting -- Racial Pluralism -- Lifestyle Pluralism -- Why is Conflict Rare and Segregation Prevalent? -- How Common is Pluralism? -- Explaining Pluralism -- Chapter Seven: Other Kinds of Schools -- The "Military" Academy -- The Upper-Class "Total Institution" -- The Small-Town School -- Schools on Military Bases -- Church Schools and The Effect of Ideology -- Schools in Other Countries: A Brief Note.

Intro -- Contents -- A Note on Foreign Words -- 1. Introduction -- Contemporary Social Theory -- A Theoretical Strategy -- Types of Resources and Types of Social Structures -- Symbolic Capital -- Status, Legitimacy, and Sacredness -- The Analytical Strategy -- Imagining India -- Status, Sacredness, and the Modern World -- 2. Theoretical Concepts -- Symbols, Agency, Contingency, and Structure -- Social Formations -- Types of Power and Types of Social Formations -- Variations in the Importance of Resources -- 3. A Theory of Status Relationships: Key Elements -- The Characteristics of Status as a Resource -- The Sources of Status -- Summary -- 4. Key Features of Indian Society: What Is to Be Explained -- Hinduism: A Brief Sketch -- Caste and the Social Structure -- Economic and Political Power: Control of Land and Labor -- Cultural Ideologies and Codes -- What Is to Be Explained -- 5. Explaining the Key Features of Caste -- Status and Power in India -- What Is to Be Explained -- Stability and Inalienability -- Mobility and Inexpansibility -- Conformity and the Elaboration of Norms and Rituals -- Associations and the Regulation of Marriage and Eating -- Gifts: Articulating Status and Material Resources -- 6. The Social Categories of Traditional India -- The Problem Defined -- What Is to Be Explained -- Relationships Between the Different Types of Power -- Types of Elites and Their Antagonists: A General Model -- Applying the Model to India -- The Genius of the Brahmans -- Kshatriyas and Sudras -- Missing Categories -- Ambiguous Categories -- The Prominence of Certain Categories -- The Presence and Absence of Varnas -- Elaboration: Asramas and Yugas -- Conclusion -- 7. The Articulation of Status and Material Resources: Political and Economic Legitimacy -- The Analytical Problem -- What Is to Be Explained -- The Concept of Legitimacy.