Rebels Without a Cause? Socialization and Subcultural Style among the Children of the New Middle Classes.

Aggleton, Peter J.; Whitty, Geoff

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Rebels Without a Cause? Socialization and Subcultural Style among the Children of the New Middle Classes.

Aggleton, Peter J.; Whitty, Geoff

Sociology of Education, v58 n1 p60-72 Jan 1985

A study of upper-middle-class college students in England who responded with "resistance" to their schooling showed that the students' challenges do not constitute effective resistances to prevailing patterns of class or gender relations, i.e., their challenges are not transformative. (RM)

Descriptors: Assertiveness, Comparative Education, Conflict, Dissent, Educational Research, Educational Sociology, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Middle Class, Political Attitudes, Social Action, Social Attitudes, Social Change, Socialization, Student Attitudes, Subcultures

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Identifiers - Location: United Kingdom (England)

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