Student identities Flashcards
Bourdieu (1984)
Habitus - taste and preferences (higher value of that if the m/c)
Symbolic capital - valued culture and habitus
Symbolic violence - withholding of symbolic capital to reproduce class structure
Archer (A03)
W/c pupils felt that in order to be successful in education they must change the way they talk and present themselves. Professional careers and uni ‘not for the likes of us’
Nike identities
Seek alternative worth and status in social peer groups by wearing brands like Nike
Connell
Hegemonic masculinity
Rich vocabulary of abuse - reinforce gender and sexual identities
Lees (86) A03
Girls called slags if sexually available by boys
Mac and Ghaill Girls A03
Male gaze used as form of surveillance to reinforce dominant heterosexual masculine identity and oppress the feminine
Mac and Ghaill boys
Macho Lads
Study of Parnell school: labeled boys who aspired for middle class careers as ‘dickhead achievers’
In contact m/c men protected an image of ‘effortless achievement’
Mac and Ghaill teachers
Make teachers told boys off for behaving like girls and teased them if girls outperformed
Ross (A03)
Male teachers subtly reinforce gender messages like disciplining students for female teachers
Ringrose (2013)
13-14 yr olds Wales
As girls went from friendship culture to heterosexual dating culture changed:
- idealized feminine identity- loyal to friend group, non competitive got along with everyone
A sexualized identity - competing for boys in dating culture
Gillborn ethnicity
Teachers labeled black students as disruptive
Fuller
Black girls rejected labels
Self refuting prophecy
3 identity sectors
Gender
Class
Ethnicity
Ethnicity factors
Teacher stereotypes
Gender factors
Teachers and discipline
Female peer groups
Macho lads
Verbal abuse
Hegemonic masculinity
