PUPILS' CLASS IDENTITIES AND THE SCHOOL Flashcards
Define habitus:
a. Habitus refers to the ‘dispositions’ or learned, taken-for-granted ways of thinking, being and acting that are shared by a particular social class
What does habitus include?
a. It includes their tastes and preferences about lifestyles and consumptions
b. Their outlook on life and their expectations about what is normal or realistic for ‘people like us’
How is a group’s habitus formed?
As a response to its position in the class structure
How does habitus link to the concept of cultural capital?
Because schools and the education system have a middle-class habitus, this gives middle-class pupils an advantage but is disadvantageous for working-class pupils
Define ‘symbolic capital’:
Where pupils who have been socialised at home into middle-class values gain status and recognition from the school and are deemed to have worth or value
Define ‘symbolic violence’:
a. The withholding of symbolic capital
b. Working-class values are deemed worthless, symbolic violence reproduces the class structure and keeps the lower classes ‘in their place’
How did Archer’s findings show the effects of symbolic violence?
a. Archer found that in order to be educationally successful, working-class students would have to change how they talked and presented themselves
b. Working-class students felt unable to access posh, middle-class spaces such as university and professional careers