Status relations in school and their relevance for health in a life course perspective: Findings from the Aberdeen children of the 1950's cohort study.
In the class room a hierarchical structure of social relations typically develops in which the child's position is a marker of the view of the others, i.e. the extent to which he or she is an accepted and valued member of the group. The status distribution in the school class is likely to correspond...
| Publicado en: | Social Science & Medicine Vol. 66; no. 4; pp. 835 - 849 |
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Elsevier Science
February 2008
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