SOCIOL 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Tomboy, Anselm Strauss, Cooties
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Interact in smaller groups: borderwork, refers to the interactions btwn genders that tends to strengthen/perpetuate gender boundaries, examples, contests btwn sexes, boys chasing girls, rituals of pollution ( cooties ) Adolescent socialization: education: learning social class, anticipatory socialization, socialization for a status that occurs before a person occupies the status, ex: training of medical doctors, allows you to try out b4 committing--can change, tracking track track. Many high schools have a college-prep track and a non-college (vocational, military, etc) Schafer, olexa, and polk: studied tacking in 3 diff schools. Blacks and students from blue collar families were much less likely to be in college-prep. College prep track = inc grades and dec dropout rates. How does lower track effect performance? i. self image is threatened ii. student subculture that places little value on academics iii. teacher expects less from you: granfield: studied effects of socialization in law school. Found socialization experiences in college were affected by social class.
