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Jessie A. Bustillos Morales – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2025
Affect and habitus are used in the paper to harness the intermingling of race and class in the young people's everyday identity practices at school, as they aspire to embody 'Black excellence'. This paper draws on ethnographic data collected with working-class Black-British young people aged between 16 and 18. Through the careful management of…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Blacks, Working Class, Educational Experience
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Smyth, John – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2016
Young people from working-class backgrounds are feeling increasingly insecure in school, and for good reasons. The institution of schooling is being converted into an instrument of neoliberal control. In this paper, I discuss how schools are becoming increasingly insecure places for working-class young people, and how they are responding, and I do…
Descriptors: Youth Problems, School Safety, Working Class, Neoliberalism