THE CULTURAL PRODUCTION AND REPRODUCTION OF GENDER: THE EFFECT OF EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES ON PEER-GROUP CULTURE.
Considerable attention has been given to the cultural reproduction of social-class differences in educational settings, but much less attention has been given to the processes by which gender differences are produced and reproduced. The few studies that have examined gender socialization in schools...
| Publicado en: | Sociology of Education Vol. 60; no. 3; pp. 200 - 214 |
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Sage Publications Inc.
Jul87
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