Cultural Anthropology

Week Three Assignment Worksheet

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Part II

This is for part 2 on the final paper. This is from the Jonsson article.

For a long time, there have been debates targeting the boys' oppositional behavior and their underachievement in schools. These debates are aimed at identifying the cause of these behaviors amongst the boys. From an ethnographical point of view, it is clear that influential theory significantly impacts the boys' anti-school culture. Equally important, the kind of narrative reproduced in regards to this theory gives a glimpse that social interaction is given priority in most school setting or contexts. The thesis statement of this article is that there has been criticism from the scholars who have been referring to boys as the new losers because many scholars are girls and boys have been left behind. According to (Jonsson, R. 2014) these researchers have observed that there is a gap when it comes to education between males and females but there is the need to extent the same to other categorization apart from gender. This can be done by identifying the ratio of the scholars in different races. From this information, it indicates that boys are at risk when it comes to education and in turn, this will affect the working class whereby there will be more women who are working than men.

However, this classification whereby they talk about the boy's anti-school culture, it explains the behaviors of the boys at school, and this might lead to the production of the rowdy boys in a way that it is not easy to clarify the complexity of the students and the strategies used during the identification. With the trend in which the boys are not valuing education, there is the need to find measures which will be used to curb the current situation because if the trend will be left to continue, then in future it will not only be in the education system but also it will extend to the workplaces. So, to avoid such situation boys should be made value education.

Jonsson, R. (2014). Boys’ Anti-School Culture Narratives and School Practices. Anthropology and Education Quarterly, 45(3), 276-292.

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