"I Need Help!" Social Class and Children's Help-Seeking in Elementary School

What role do children play in education and stratification? Are they merely passive recipients of unequal opportunities that schools and parents create for them? Or do they actively shape their own opportunities? Through a longitudinal, ethnographic study of one socioeconomically diverse, public ele...

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Published in:	American sociological review 2011-12, Vol.76 (6), p.862-882
Main Author:	Calarco, Jessica McCrory
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Subjects:	Child. Socialization Children Children & youth Class Classes, stratification, mobility Classroom observations Classrooms Comparative Analysis Cultural Capital Desks Education Educational Opportunities Elementary Education Elementary School Students Elementary Schools Equal Education Equal opportunities Equal opportunity Ethnographic research Ethnography Families & family life Family (Sociological Unit) Hair Help Seeking Help seeking behavior Inequality Learning Longitudinal Studies Middle Class Parent-child relations Parents Parents & parenting Peers Preschool Education Primary schools Public Schools Resource Materials School environment Schools Skills Social capital Social Class Social classes Social interaction Social organization. Social system. Social structure Social reproduction Social Status Social Stratification Social support Sociology Sociology of education. Educational systems. Lifelong education Sociology of the family. Age groups Speech acts Strategic behaviour Stratification Student Behavior Student Role Students Teachers Teaching methods United States (East) Working Class
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