Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contributors -- Contents -- Preface -- I SETTING THE SCENE -- 1 The High School: Students and Social Contexts- An Ecological Perspective -- 2 A Dilemma of Diversity: The American High School -- 3 Adolescent Social ization and the High School: A Selective Review of Literature -- 4 The Social Environments of the Two High Schools: Background Data -- II THE BOYS AND THEIR CONTEXT: FIVE APPROACHES TO RESEARCH -- 5 Coping Preference, Adaptive Roles, and Varied High School Environments: A Search for Person-Environment Transactions -- 6 Persons and Environments -- 7 Exploration, Identity Development, and the Sense of Competency: A Case Study -- 8 Interpersonal Behavior and Preferences for Exploration in Adolescent Boys: A Small Group Study -- 9 Exploratory Behavior of Adolescents in a Dyadic, Problem-Solving Situation -- III TWO APPROACHES TO THE HIGH SCHOOL SOCIAL STRUCTURE -- 10 Contrasting Adaptations to the Social Environment of a High School: Implications of a Case Study of Helping Behavior in Two Adolescent Subcultures -- 11 Persons and Settings: A Comparative Analysis of the Quality and Range of Social Interaction in Two High Schools -- IV FEEDBACK, CRITIQUE AND COMMENTARY -- 12 Observations on the Opinions of Youth Study from the Participating High Schools -- 13 Reflections on a Multi-Method Investigation of High Schools and Their Inhabitants -- 14 Exploratory Behavi or, Socialization, and the High School Environment -- Author Index -- Subject Index