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Peer Groups, Boundary-Work, and Educational Mobility

Sat, August 8, 4:00 to 5:30pm, TBA

Session Submission Type: Paper Session (90 minute)

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This session explores the forces that shape peer group-making and students’ sense of belonging in secondary and higher education. A long line of research in the sociology of education demonstrates how race, class, gender, and other identity cleavages among students mediate school process and impact differential opportunities for educational attainment. These five studies use original qualitative and quantitative approaches to probe the meso-level dynamics that shape student experiences of identity and difference. They demonstrate how a wide range of school organizational features and programmatic decisions, ranging from student housing to extracurricular activities, can structure peer networks, and they interrogate how these institutional factors interact with the identity categories that students bring with them to school. Their findings reveal the importance of within group bonds, opportunities for intergroup connection, and the recognition and inclusion of non-traditional student groups.

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