hdfs 239
- Schools have become increasingly important as contexts for social development
- more time is spent in school
- more socialization tasks taken on by school
- provide the major context for peer interaction
- provide the major context for contact with non-parental adults
- School as a social institution:
- school as a complex institution
- conformity demands
- role structure
- extracurricular activities
- undermanned and overmanned settings
- involvement with teachers
- instrumental v. affective focus
- teachers as part of the negatives in school, rather than the positives
- social status system
- learn to read status system in complex organizations
- context for dating, friendship
- Japanese v. US social organization
- political socialization
- political ideology