Sociology 2267A/B Lecture : Chapter 4
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Arthur stinchombe: agrees school failure is important stimulus for delinquency but delinquent adaptation isn"t limited to working class school failures: thesis an adolescent"s status prospects are a more important determinant of delinquency than his or her status origins , postulates a causal connections between a prospective working class future and delinquency, rebellious delinquency is least evident among youth who are high academic achievers, secondary school main institution where universal standards of success are applied over the whole range of the class system limited definition of. Practice of streaming and track of students not all are viewed equally by teachers: those not being groomed for university were significantly more delinquent than those being prepared for university entrance, behaviour that determined the track allocation rather than the other way around, main contribution of streaming: polarizes student populations into pro and anti school subcultures.