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

Autor/in	Calarco, Jessica McCrory
Titel	"I Need Help!" Social Class and Children's Help-Seeking in Elementary School
Quelle	In: American Sociological Review, 76 (2011) 6, S.862-882 (21 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0003-1224
DOI	10.1177/0003122411427177
Schlagwörter	Working Class; Ethnography; Help Seeking; Social Class; Social Stratification; Student Role; Longitudinal Studies; Public Schools; Elementary School Students; Student Behavior; Comparative Analysis; Middle Class + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Arbeiterklasse; Ethnografie; Help-seeking behavior; Help-seeking behaviour; Hilfe suchendes Verhalten; Social classes; Soziale Klasse; Soziale Zusammensetzung; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Public school; Öffentliche Schule; Student behaviour; Schülerverhalten; Mittelschicht
Abstract	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 elementary school, I show that children's social-class backgrounds affect when and how they seek help in the classroom. Compared to their working-class peers, middle-class children request more help from teachers and do so using different strategies. Rather than wait for assistance, they call out or approach teachers directly, even interrupting to make requests. In doing so, middle-class children receive more help from teachers, spend less time waiting, and are better able to complete assignments. By demonstrating these skills and strategies, middle-class children create their own advantages and contribute to inequalities in the classroom. These findings have implications for theories of cultural capital, stratification, and social reproduction. (Contains 29 notes and 1 table.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10