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- Title
"STRATIFICATION BELIEFS OF ASPIRING TEACHERS".
- Authors
Eppard, Lawrence M.; Okum, Troy; Schubert, Dan; Ying Yang
- Abstract
This study explores the stratification beliefs of aspiring teachers in the U.S. Findings are based on data from semi-structured interviews with 25 college students in a teacher education program at a Mid-Atlantic American university. These interview data suggest highly individualistic beliefs concerning general inequality and economic inequality, mixed beliefs concerning poverty and racial inequality, and highly structuralist beliefs concerning gender inequality. There was also strong support for the notion of the U.S. as a meritocratic land of widespread opportunity where citizens have a high degree of individual agency. There was very limited support for government anti-poverty and inequality-reduction efforts. We discuss these results and their possible implications for the process of socialization in American schools.
- Subjects
UNITED States; SOCIAL stratification; TEACHERS; TEACHER education; SEMI-structured interviews; EQUALITY &; society; EQUALITY &; economics
- Publication
Sociological Viewpoints, 2019, Vol 33, Issue 1, p29
- ISSN
1060-0876
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.26908/3312019_012