Jerita and her friends are from low-SES families, though most of their peers are from middle class families. Jerita has decided that school is a dead end and does not care about succeeding academically. Her Spanish teacher believes Jerita could make high grades in Spanish and some of her other classes. The teacher encourages Jerita to turn in homework and raise her grades, but Jerita does not want to sell out and act like the middle-class kids. She seems to have become part of:

A resistance culture is the process whereby a person refuses to conform to the way things are been done in a particular area or place due to their personal belief in way things are been done in their own culture.

One of the major attributes of a resistance culture is a person taking a firm stance in what they believe in, taking a firm stand in what they have decided to do even thought the consequences of that decision can affect them positively or negatively .

In the question above, Jerita belongs to a low social economic status (SES) family where there is low income in the family. In Low social economic status (SES) families, the rate of students dropping out due to the low income in the households or families are quite high so this influences the behavior of most of the children in low income families where some of them don't take there studies seriously even though they can do better academically. This is a typical example of a resistance culture. Doing better academically can be seen as been as acting like middle class kids, been a sell out or comprising on the culture system in low social economic status families where been a drop out from school is a very common.