SOCPSY 2YY3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Patricia Hill Collins, Good Will Hunting, Symbolic Interactionism
18 Dec 2016
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What is stratification: social strati cation: ways in which individuals or groups are ranked in society, re ecting different amounts of power, status and prestige". Differences in family and local community socialization processes (which are rooted in historical and structural conditions) lead black and white working-class children to develop styles of interaction" that con ict with middle-class teachers and school norms. Helps explain higher dropout rate/reproduction of class structure: for example, reay et al (2005) Middle-class students assume university is part of their future and interact regularly with parents and friends who provide detailed information about university applications but not so much for working-class students. Result: reproduction of class inequality (2) the role of status in interactions: people in lower-status or less powerful positions have to take the role of the other" more often. For example, administration assistant must be more concerned with how the boss views him/her than vice versa.
