Elective segregation is everywhere yet it’s hidden at the same time. People impart solely with the …show more content…
This effect can be correlated with organization of the school and availabity of classes they offers. Most of the high schools in United States, students social networks are readily apparent: elective segregation leading towards changing degrees of elective segregation by race, age, gender and social status. School’s network system plays an important role in elective segregation. Schools that offer students more choice, more ways to compete requirements, a bigger range of potential friends, and more freedom to select seats in a classroom can cause elective segregation by race, age, gender and social status. Elective segregation is less dominant in schools and classrooms that limit social choices and suggest formats of interaction. In contrast to small schools naturally they offer limited choice of potential friends, so the cost of excluding people from a social group is higher. Structured classrooms guide student interactions in set routes and encourage students to interact on the basis of schoolwork rather than on the basis of their external social lives. Overtime schools are indirectly shaping conditions in these societies because some students keep friendship at the classroom level and some students keep friendship at the school level. Large district schools tend to highlight the search by teens for friends who are similar to themselves, is the tendency of students to associate and bond with similar others. Large school districts offer various range of potential friends as well as greater exposure to people who are different. Schools with a strong focus on academics, where teachers have a hand in setting the pace and controlling classroom interactions, teenagers are less likely to form friendships based on social attitudes imported from outside the school. Instead, friendships are more likely to develop out of shared school activities and similar intellectual interests. There are many