Gender - Identity, Class and Girls' Achievement - Working-Class Girls' Dilemma Flashcards
What was the dimmela that working class girls were faced with?
Working class girls were faced with wither gaining symbolic capital or gaining educational captial.
How would working class girls gain symbolic capital?
They would gain it from their peers by conforming to a hyper-heterosexual feminine identity.
How would working class girls gain educational capital?
They would gain it by rejecting their working-class identity and conforming to the school’s middle class notions of a respectable, ideal female pupil.
How would working class girls cope with their dilemma?
Some girls tried to cope with this dilemma by defining themselves as ‘good underneath’. Despite teacher’s negative views of them.
What did the working class girls’ ‘good underneath’ self image reflect within the education system?
Their self image refects the girl’s struggle to achieve a sense of self-worth within an education system that devalues their working-class feminine identites.
What does Archer argue about working class identites and their educational success?
Archer argues that working-class feminine identities and educational success conflict with one another.
What does Archer argue about working class girls’ investment in feminine identities and underachievement?
Archer argues that working class girls’ investments in their feminine identites is a major cause of their underachievement.
