Alexander and Entwisle knew that conducting this research was not only going to be difficult but interesting. In the beginning, when they knew just where to find everyone, they pulled the children out of this classrooms. They sat in any quiet corner of the schools they could claim. Each students were interview by the sociologists. The students talked with Alexander and Entwisle about teachers and report cards, about growing up to become rock stars or police officers. This seldom happened in raucous classrooms or overwhelmed homes; a quiet, one on one conversations with an adult eager to hear about them. Later, as the children grew and dispersed, some failing out of the school system and others leaving the city behind, the conversations took
