Learning to Labour: How Working Class Kids Get Working Class Jobs
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...…the rural young and the expectations they face in school, may for some lead them to reject everything the educational system has to offer, as shown by Corbett (2007a) and also by Willis (1977) in his classic ethnographic study of “the lads” from a working-class environment in England in the 1970s....
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...…of young adulthood A media-fuelled cult of youth has directed intense, often sexualised, selective attention onto young adulthood, viewed both as a peak life-state; and as a critical foundation stage for future prospects (Willis 1977, Henderson et al. 2007), and therefore a source of risk....
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...…research, humour is investigated from the perspective of gender and power, and the violent use of humour is recognised in peer relations and in constructing masculinities in schools, although this kind of research is exiguous (see Dubberley 1993; Walker and Goodson 1977; Willis 1977)....
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...In gender-sensitive research, humour is investigated from the perspective of gender and power, and the violent use of humour is recognised in peer relations and in constructing masculinities in schools, although this kind of research is exiguous (see Dubberley 1993; Walker and Goodson 1977; Willis 1977)....
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...Such critiques of textual analysis contributed to what has been termed the ‘‘ethnographic turn’’ in media and cultural studies, which rose to prominence in the 1990s and continues to hold sway within some areas of popular music studies (Alasuutari, 1999; Ang, 1996; Jensen & Pauly, 1997)....
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...The ethnographic studies of Paul Willis (1977, 1978) notwithstanding, much of this work has been described as exemplifying the tradition of ‘‘textual analysis’’ with which media and cultural studies subsequently became strongly associated (Rojek, 2007; Turner, 1996)....
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