anti school subcultures

• students placed in low streams who were mostly working class lost self esteem as the school undermined their self worth by placing them in a postion of inferior status
• The label of failure pushes them to search for alternative ways to gain status. Thi typically involved inverting the schools values of hard work obedience and puctuality
• students in low streams form anti school subculture to gain status among their peers by not doing homework, smoking, truating etc.
• although joining anti school subcultures solve the problem of a lack of status it creates other probelms
• Hargreaves (1967) found similar responses to labelling and streaming in a secondary modern schools. From the POV of the education system, boys in lower streams were triple failures as they failed ther 11+ and wer placed in low streams and labelled as worthless louts
• Hargreaves argues that

  One solution to the status problem was to form an anti school subculture in which high status was given to those who opposed the school's rules. they formed a delinquent subculture that guarantee their educational failure