SOCIOL 3AC Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Reincarnated (Album)
Document Summary
Ethnographic work at rosa parks elementary school. Schools have the power to track certain children toward involvement in the criminal justice system by imposing continual punishment. Punishment contributes to broader message about kids" identity. Trouble can also be a form of recognition and identity as someone who has to be reckoned with a bad boy . Schools attempt to shape and create compliant students. That one has a jail-cell with his name on it . Ferguson at rosa parks as member of an evaluation team. In-depth, unstructured interviews w. adults at school, students and parents. The struggle: schools attempt to shape and create compliant students. Students who resist orders to obey are the focus of much teacher attention and become potential disciplinary subjects. But how schools and teachers interpret noncompliant behavior is filtered through socially-created assumptions about race and gender.
