Formation of High School Students' Social Attitudes and Social Skills In the Transition Era

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The purpose of this study was to detect the characteristics and the generative processes of high school students' and their parents' social attitudes and social skills in our transition era of Japan, and thereby examine how these characteristics and processes are related to the mechanism of reproduction of social stratification. The Survey on High School Students' Attitudes towards School Life and the Society, which was consisted of four waves, was conducted with the sample of the students enrolled in 2009 and their parents in three schools of Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. Analyses of the data so far suggest that there is little support to the hypothesis of persistent or amplified reproduction of social stratification or that of increasing degrees of inequality.