An Ethnography of Children's Friendships in a Fifth-Grade Culturally Diverse Class.

Autor/in	Deegan, James G.
Titel	An Ethnography of Children's Friendships in a Fifth-Grade Culturally Diverse Class.
Quelle	(1991), (59 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Classification; Classroom Research; Cultural Differences; Elementary School Students; Ethnicity; Ethnography; Friendship; Grade 5; Intermediate Grades; Interpersonal Relationship; Peer Relationship; Preadolescents; Racial Differences; Sex Differences; Socioeconomic Status; Urban Areas + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Classification system; Klassifikation; Klassifikationssystem; Kultureller Unterschied; Ethnizität; Ethnografie; Freundschaft; School year 05; 5. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 05; Mittelstufe; Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung; Peer-Beziehungen; Pre-adolescence; Präadoleszenz; Rassenunterschied; Sex difference; Geschlechtsunterschied; Socio-economic status; Sozioökonomischer Status; Urban area; Stadtregion
Abstract	The purpose of this ethnographic study was to examine friendships of early adolescents in a culturally diverse fifth grade class in an urban elementary school in the southeastern United States. The study described and interpreted the experiences of being a friend and having a friend in a culturally diverse classroom. The approach was grounded in symbolic interactionist theory; executed with ethnographic procedures; and guided by constant comparison analysis. Findings indicated that children's friendships were established through frequently rehearsed low verbal protocols. Children negotiated their friendships through strategic adaptation to the parameters of togetherness, being nice, not fighting, and circumvention. Friends were described inclusively rather than exclusively. Friends were described primarily by gender, and across race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status features. Emergent cultural dissonance related to drugs, transiency, and being a runaway acutely affected children's friendships. A list of 61 references is included. (Author)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC