 Habitus Disjunctures, Reflexivity and White Working-Class Boys’ Conceptions of Status in Learner and Social IdentitiesGarth Stahl Sociological Research Online, 2013, vol. 18, issue 3, 19-30 Abstract: The article primarily explores the social class identification of 15 white working-class boys at a high performing school in a socially marginalized area of South London where academic performance was routinely depicted as crucial to economic and social well-being. The research aims to consider the influence of a high performing school on the boys’ identity and the relationship between their identity and their engagement with education. First, a brief background on white working-class boys ‘underachievement’ will provide the context. Second, Bourdieu's conceptual tools of habitus, institutional habitus and capitals are examined. Bourdieu's class analysis provides a useful conceptual framework to address (divided) working-class masculinities in a high attaining academic institution. Third, semi-structured interviews focused on academic self-concept, social class-identification and subsequent rationales, as well as participants’ identification of who they considered to be a student they admire, provide valuable insight into understanding habitus disjunctures and learner identities. Keywords: White Working-Class Boys; Social Class; Habitus; Reflexivity; Identity (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:sae:socres:v:18:y:2013:i:3:p:19-30 DOI: 10.5153/sro.2999 Access Statistics for this article More articles in Sociological Research Online |
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