Sewell

• Sewell 


  boys responses to schooling

  -including racist stereotypes by teachers

  -rebels

  -conformists

  -retreatists

  -innovators
• rebels


  -visible & influential

  -small

  -reject goals & rules > high exclusion

  -conform to 'black macho lad'

  -sexual experience & virility

  -contempt of white boys & conforming black boys
• conformists

  -largest group

  -accept goals & keen to succeed

  -mixed group of friends

  -anxiety over being stereotyped
• retreatists 


  -tiny minority

  -isolated & disconnected from school & black subculture
• innovators

  -pro-education but anti-school

  -success but not approval

  -credibility without rebellion