The Role of the Category of Ignorance in Sociological Theory: An Exploratory Statement

models in the lower classes. Since anti-social behavior apparently blocks movement out of the lower class, anti-social individuals tend to accumulate in the lower class. Lower class children, therefore, have a disproportionate access to association with anti-social individuals. If class position does determine antisocial behavior, one mechanism by which it does so, the greater exposure of lower class children to anti-social models, probably depends on the fact that anti-social behavior determines class!