classroom are linked to the fact that they’re from a lower social level. If the working class child wishes to win favour of middle class people, he will have to change his habits, his values, his speech and whom he associates with. However in the area he has grown up it would be of no gain to him, so he would eventually turn back to the street corner to satisfy his needs. The working class boy in his working class area is likely to be a failure.
The people of status will treat their children to be respectful and law abiding as mentioned before, but as the middle class parents provide money, clothes, cars etc they are trapping the child and making them live up to the status into which they have been brought up. It seems some middle class children have low ascribed status and low self-esteem and feelings of resentment and inferiority (Cohen 1955 p111-116).
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