Introduction 1. School and peer group as agents of socialisation 2. The research population 3. Students’ control systems 4. Mucking around 5. Intrusion of external statuses and associations 6. Stirrers and clowns 7. Teacher authority and student control 8. Diffuse relations with teachers 9. Students’ construction and management of academic status 10. Teacher particularism 11. Students’ evaluation of classroom seating position 12. Conclusions Appendix A Student interviews Appendix B Conditions and permit for research Appendix C A girls’ classroom note.
Biography
James Macpherson, at the time of the first publication, was a Research Fellow at Massey University in New Zealand. He was educated at Dalhousie University in Canada, and the Universities of Western Australia and Queensland.
