Learning to Labour: How Working Class Kids Get Working Class Jobs
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...As Willis (1977) so effectively shows, people’s understandings of what careers can look like are informed by what is collectively perceived as appropriate in particular social locations....
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...…to Labour, Paul Willis shows how education links culture and class in the reproduction of social hierarchy; in other words, how cultural and institutional processes explain how and why ‘working class lads come to accept working class jobs through their own apparent choice’ (Willis, 1977, p. 185)....
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...Willis (1977), Bowles and Gintis (1976) and Evans (2007) to name but a few, do not appear to question the habituses of the teachers, whereas those of the students and their families are listed and cited as reasons for students being disruptive, excluded or underachieving....
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...Therefore, it is unlikely that Marie will meet students like Willis’ (1977) “lads” by choice, unless she is placed in a school where such students exist....
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...The effect of this is that particular social class groups have been noted as having different expectations of schools, depending upon their own experiences of school (Willis, 1977; Evans, 2007; Spera, Wentzel and Matto, 2009)....
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...…at this time were sometimes rather less pessimistic, but even pupil agency was often seen to contribute to social and cultural reproduction, as writers like Willis (1977) and Corrigan (1979) demonstrated how working class pupils actively participated in their own positioning in the class structure....
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...As their resistance was largely determined as symbolic, thereby imbuing them with a sense of resistance without any of the associated material challenges, subcultures were viewed as inadvertently reinforcing social structures (J. Clarke et al., [1975] 2006; P. Cohen, [1972] 1997; Willis, 1977)....
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...In his study of working class kids, Paul Willis (1977) identified a counter-school culture which he referred to as the ‘lads’ and ‘ear’oles’....
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...Paul Corrigan (1979) also found that school boys would pass time by messing around and getting into trouble....
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