Структурированная активность школьников "спального" района Санкт-Петербурга: социальный класс, семья и школа

Журнал социологии и социальной антропологии. 2017. Т. XX. № 1. С. 128–148.

Akifyeva R. N., Andreeva J. V.

The article reports the results of a study of differences in structured and unstructured activities of students, as well as the reasons that determine these differences. The empirical base of the research includes the data of survey conducted in the form of writings (208 pieces of writting) and interviews (20 interviews) in 2013 - 2014 in three schools a residential district of St. Petersburg. In this study, we have answered the following questions: What is the difference between structured activities children from different schools and within the same school? How do these differences relate to the resources possessed by the students and the opportunities offered by the schools?

We have concluded that the students' structured activities can be determined by the specifics of the school environment, as well as the perception of themselves and their capabilities. Schools are not just places that provide different types of extra-curriculum activities and the number of them. They follow different approaches to implementation of extra-curricular programs. The students from different schools explain their choice of structured activities differently, share different specific features in the perception of themselves and in whom or what they blame for the current situation. These features can be interpreted as differences in self-esteem and locus of control. The indicated differences in responses of students, in our opinion, have no class nature. Although students are unevenly distributed across schools in terms of mothers’ education, there are greater stylistic similarities in their responses within schools than between schools.

Keywords: социальный класс, social inequality, неравенство, social class, structured activities, структурированная активность, child-rearing approaches, подходы к воспитанию

Publication based on the results of: Внеучебная активность и интеграция детей мигрантов в Санкт-Петербурге (2013)