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(a) Tile: 'It's different for girls' Author: Christine Griffin Date of publication: November 1986 Publisher or source: 'Social studies review' (b) In a study by P.Willis 'Learning to Labour' he identified two distinct white working class male cultures, which strongly influenced their career paths. Christine Griffin wondered whether she would find ' similarly strong cultural connection between the worlds of school and waged work for young white working class women'. She also had several other specific aims: - To find out the differences between relationships in girls groups and boys groups. - To show different opinions on future jobs in boys and girls groups. - To provide information on a wide range of female students. - To show that it's more complicated to study girls than the lads. The research was a longitudinal study following a group of white working class women from 6 different schools in Birmingham. She interviewed 180 school students, some of them individually and some...

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