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초록

The purpose of this study is to analyze the adolescents' pre and post lives in school dropout by reviewing the school dropout adolescents' social contexts. Through the procedures of this study, the school dropout adolescents showed how they identified themselves by expressing themselves as 'the kicked-out kid' or 'the leave-off kid'. The school dropout adolescents categorized themselves as 'the kicked-out' or 'the lcave-off' and this shows the contexts of school dropout directly and indirectly whether their opinion was involved or not. The analysis of the sociocultural aspects of the school dropout of adolescents and the meaning of such contexts resulted in discovery of structural factors in adolescents' pre and post lives of dropout. This study revealed that the school dropout is carried out through the complicated applications of structural factors which includes critical or fatal incidents, traits, reinforcement, catalysts, and endings. After the school dropout, isolation and uncertainty were found in dropouts' life styles, which represent their life with main interest, and attitude toward their future.