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Chapter 11 investigates how children’s and young people’s peer groups can promote either equality or inequality through everyday interaction. Using ethnographic evidence to illustrate these processes, the chapter focuses on the furthering of distributive justice norms in various cultural settings. These norms underlie two primary forms of social exchange: balanced and generalized reciprocity. Moreover, the chapter operates with Opotow’s notion of the scope of justice, which refers to the applicability of justice to individual groups. This framework is applied to examine the ways through which children and young people negotiate their group boundaries in everyday life, creating moral inclusion and exclusion in a given community. These processes either enhance or discard as irrelevant ethnic, racial, and gender inequalities that characterize the wider society. Hence, peer group interaction does not necessarily imply equal relationships but rather the reproduction of existing social inequalities. |
