Julie Bettie's Bias

As I am reading Girls Without Class, I am astonished by consistent negativity that Julie Betty uses to describe the preps. From the beginning of the novel she describes the impossible nature of subjectivity, which all sociologists are unable to escape. She also describes the ways in which she would go about her analysis to remand the most neutral toward all of the students. She goes into great detail about her dress and her intention on having only small amounts of discourse with the factually to minimize chances of being affiliated with them. Julie Betty seems to side with the Mexican-American girls who express so much slander against the girls who are considered preps. I wonder how Julie Betty’s growing up experience shaped her study, and her expectations. At times she even joins the Latina girls as they talk negatively towards the preps. Julie Betty expresses that the entire school seems to be run by the preps, and the award ceremonies, pep rallies, are a celebration of preps. The other students are forced to go to these events which only recognize the preps. At one point in the novel Julie Betty said to one of the Latino girl students named Wendy, “so did you like the prep award ceremony”? Julie Betty then claimed that Wendy appreciated her recognition of what the ceremony was really about. It might be true that the preps were granted opportunities, which they did not have to work as hard as other students at the school would have to in order to attain the same achievemnts. Julie Betty seems to cross some unprofessional boundries which might in en be helpful, since it seems that she is looking to reaveal specific information regarding specific groups. Julie Betty seems to have spent the least amount of time with the preps, and many of her conclusions were based off of surface judgments. Julie Betty seems to have some repressed anger toward preps, and it proposes the possibility that she maybe have had problems with their seemingly underserved achievments in the past.