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Ineffective Resistance



Ineffective resistance is a response pattern which redirects opposition to social inequities into behaviors that will not endanger the status quo. Members of oppressed or socioeconomically depressed groups are often socialized to adopt ineffective resistance patterns in school.

For example, many schools, particularly in poorer neighborhoods, create a social environment that equates academic achievement (and by extension, intellectual ability) with obedience. Students who reject obedience, therefore, are tricked into also rejecting intellectual achievement, thus creating a stigma against appearing "smart" among the school's rebellious elements. The end result is to intellectually cripple those students who resist the system, thus rendering their resistance ineffective.

This explains, among other things, why bright students almost always do poorly in bad schools. Intellectual curiosity and creativity must be punished severely in such a setting in order to maintain the teacher's monopoly over knowledge.

Other forms of ineffective resistance include petty crime and vandalism, conspicuous materialism ("buying respect") and violence within the group.

See Also:

  1. Failures+of+Education
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