Gay-Straight Alliances in High Schools: Social Predictors of Early Adoption

Autor/inn/en	Fetner, Tina; Kush, Kristin
Titel	Gay-Straight Alliances in High Schools: Social Predictors of Early Adoption
Quelle	In: Youth & Society, 40 (2008) 1, S.114-130 (17 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0044-118X
DOI	10.1177/0044118X07308073
Schlagwörter	Social Support Groups; Public Schools; Regression (Statistics); Homosexuality; High School Students; Predictor Variables; Social Influences; Extracurricular Activities; Activism; Social Attitudes; Social Discrimination; Student Organizations; Institutional Characteristics; Geographic Regions; State Legislation; Socioeconomic Influences + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Social support; Soziale Unterstützung; Public school; Öffentliche Schule; Regression; Regressionsanalyse; Homosexualität; High school; High schools; Student; Students; Oberschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Prädiktor; Sozialer Einfluss; Außerunterrichtliche Aktivität; Aktivismus; Politischer Protest; Social attidude; Soziale Einstellung; Soziale Benachteiligung; Soziale Schließung; Student organisations; Schülerorganisation; Studentenorganisation; Studentenvereinigung; Studentenvertretung; Landesrecht; Sozioökonomischer Faktor
Abstract	This article examines the patterns of emergence of gay-straight alliances (GSAs) in public high schools in the United States. These extracurricular student groups offer safe spaces, social support, and opportunities for activism to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and straight students. Combining data on various characteristics of public schools and state anti-discrimination laws with organizational records on the formation of GSA groups, the authors consider the conditions under which these groups are likely to form, as well as the social barriers to their formation. Using logistic regression and linear regression analysis, a number of characteristics common among those schools are isolated that founded the first wave of GSAs. The location of schools, the number of students, region of the country, and support groups outside high schools are among those social forces that promoted the early adoption of GSAs in public schools. (Contains 4 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10