Learning to Labour: How Working Class Kids Get Working Class Jobs
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...…school has been studied for some decades as part of the sociology of education, educational psychology, and youth studies (Giroux, 1983; Markström, 2011; McFadden, 1995; McRobbie & Garber, 1976; Riddell, 1989; Samuelsson, 2005, 2011; Van de Kleut & White, 2010; Willis, 1977; Wright & Weekes, 2003)....
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...phenomenon has not yet been properly studied despite the fact that students’ overall resistance in school has been studied for some decades as part of the sociology of education, educational psychology, and youth studies (Giroux, 1983; Markström, 2011; McFadden, 1995; McRobbie & Garber, 1976; Riddell, 1989; Samuelsson, 2005, 2011; Van de Kleut & White, 2010; Willis, 1977; Wright & Weekes, 2003)....
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...…of the labor process may have been nominally unconditional, but in practice it was always contested by the workers, and emotions played a significant part in shop-floor cultures and individual coping methods (Collinson 1992; Durand and Hatzfeld 2003; Turtiainen and Vaananen 2012; Willis 1977)....
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...Worker misbehavior was common, and social climbing and collaboration with the management was viewed with suspicion (Meyer 2001; Sennett and Cobb 1972, 197–202; Teräs 2001, 44–62; Willis 1977, 106, 107)....
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...For example, managerial control of the labor process may have been nominally unconditional, but in practice it was always contested by the workers, and emotions played a significant part in shop-floor cultures and individual coping methods (Collinson 1992; Durand and Hatzfeld 2003; Turtiainen and Vaananen 2012; Willis 1977)....
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...Kelly (2009) explored how students reconciled their concerns with status by forming the oppositional sub-cultures described in Hargreaves (1967), Lacey (1970), Willis (1977) and Ball (1981)....
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...Individuals within these groups may attempt to conform (as in Horvat and Antonio 1999) or resist/oppose (like ‘the lads’ in Willis 1977)....
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...The studies of Jackson and Marsden, Hargreaves, Lacey, Willis, and Ball suggested the build-up of an oppositional culture among students who could not reconcile their working-class values with the middle-class values dominating school culture....
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...Do lower or higher amounts of socio-economic capital in terms of values (cultural capital), wealth (economic capital), or status (parental occupation), affect the way practitioners negatively or positively view students? Are some groups demonised while others are lauded? And are students with economic and cultural capital nearest to the capital of practitioners more positively perceived by practitioners compared to other students? Such questions will enable the study to ascertain whether or not the hegemonic contest between working and middle class values of previous eras (Jackson and Marsden 1962; Hargreaves 1967; Lacey 1970; Willis 1977; Ball 1981) is still evident in our schools....
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...However, studies such as Croll et al (2008) are important because they correct a misconception, sometimes suggested through vivid case studies such as Reay (2002) or Lareau (2003), that there are still “radical breaks” (Willis 1977 p1) between socio-economic groups....
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...See Willis (1977) for an example of this in relation to schooling....
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