Anti-school Subculture and Ethnicity Flashcards
How is ethnicity linked with anti-school subcultures?
Certain ethnic groups are more likely to create an anti-school subculture or adopt an anti-education attitude as part of their culture.
Some ethnic groups create subcultures based on teachers perception of them.
ARCHER ‘MUSLIM BOYS’
Studied Muslim boys and how they demonstrate their masculine and religious identity as a peer group.
Saw their identity as Muslim and were conscious of the protection being a member of a subculture would bring.
MIZRA ‘GIRLS’
Girls resented teacher labels they received, racism, and expectations of failure by they adopted a strategic rationalization of what they perceived to be wasteful and unproductive lesson time.
MAC AN GHAIL ‘YOUNG GIFTED BLACK MALES’
Young and gifted black males develop subcultures based on masculine images as a response to perceived teacher labeling and racism.
SEWELL ‘SUCCESSFUL BLACK MALES’
Successful black males are more likely to be targetted whereas educational failure becomes a badge to wear with pride.
Conformists - pro-education
Innovators - pro-education and anti-school
Retreatists - reject education and school altogether
Rebels - form their own alternative culture
