Reputation and Respectability: How Competing Cultural Systems Affect Students' Performance in School.

Gibson, Margaret A.

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Publication Date: 1982

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Reputation and Respectability: How Competing Cultural Systems Affect Students' Performance in School.

Gibson, Margaret A.

Anthropology and Education Quarterly, v13 n1 p3-27 Spr 1982

Analyzes the interrelation of ethnicity, sex role, peer group, and social class, and discusses the effect of these variables on school performance. Drawing upon fieldwork in St. Croix (Virgin Islands), examines the value of a cultural compatibility-incompatibility framework for explaining school success. (Author/GC)

Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cultural Influences, Educational Attainment, Elementary Secondary Education, Ethnicity, Ethnography, Peer Influence, Sex Differences, Sex Role, Social Class, Success

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: Virgin Islands

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