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Learning to Labour: How Working Class Kids Get Working Class Jobs

江俊儒
- Iss: 32, pp 5-8
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The article was published on 2011-12-01 and is currently open access. It has received 1252 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Working class.

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Television News, Politics and Young People: Generation Disconnected?

Mike Wayne
TL;DR: In this paper, the crisis of political representation and the symbolic criminalisation of young people are discussed. And the boundaries of political debate: Animal Rights Apathetic or Excluded? Young people, News and the Electronic Media Talk Back: Young Audiences and Reception Conclusion: Is another television news paradigm possible?
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Formal education and intercultural capital: towards attachment beyond narrow ethno‐national boundaries?

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors draw on Bourdieu's notions of habitus and cultural capital, and regard people's attachments to country (and beyond) as learned and habituated, yet open to modification and reconstruction through reflexive agency, educational practices and the acquisition of intercultural capital.
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Being chosen and performing choice : young people engaging in imaginative and constrained secondary school practices in Vancouver, BC, Canada

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