SOC 207 Chapter Notes - Chapter 30: The Public Interest, Compulsory Education, Upper Middle Class
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Chapter 3 (76: shapes public policy and schools, dropout problem, people constantly point out risk factors, isolate these people. The cultural construction of a group defined through a discourse of risk represents a shaved and quite partial image. If education doesn"t improve then everything will go to shit: today chinese will take over, teen pregnancies will spike, etc. (77, the one liners ring so familiar because they chant so ritualistically . Save us from them : article published in the public interest 1989. Coerce young people to do what we consider good for them . They want to live up to our expectations : talking about the kids who do not fall under this control the remaining quarter constitutes the problem . Adolescent choice vs. adolescent coercion (78: 25% of kids don"t graduate. If they don"t pass they have to stay in that grade. What are low income adolescents going to do once they are.
