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Tough Femininities: Ethnic Minority Girls' Aggressive School Opposition
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Eriksen, Ingunn Marie – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2019
This article addresses school resistance in ethnic minority girls. Girls' school opposition is mostly described as covert. If described as hostile, it is rarely understood in terms of femininity. Through psychosocial analyses of extensive fieldwork and interviews with students in a Norwegian upper-secondary school, the article describes an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Femininity, Ethnicity, Ethnic Groups
"What's the Plan?" "What Plan?" Changing Aspirations among Gypsy Youngsters, and Implications for Future Cultural Identities and Group Membership
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Levinson, Martin P. – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2015
Considering data from a research project with two Gypsy communities (2010-2012) in South West England, this article explores issues of education and identity. The two communities have contrasting experiences within the education system. Informed by inter-disciplinary perspectives on identity and assimilation theories, the article explores these…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Ethnic Groups, Minority Groups, Migrants
New Counter-School Cultures: Female Students' Drug Use at a High-Achieving Secondary School
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Fletcher, Adam; Bonell, Chris; Rhodes, Tim – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2009
We draw on case-study research at a high-achieving secondary school in London to illustrate how school experiences may influence drug use and reproduce inequalities in reconstructed ways in late modernity. Qualitative data were collected through semi-structured interviews with students and teachers, and observations. We focus in particular on the…
Descriptors: Drug Use, Females, Disadvantaged, High Achievement
Class, Gender, (Hetero)Sexuality and Schooling: Paradoxes within Working-Class Girls' Engagement with Education and Post-16 Aspirations
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Archer, Louise; Halsall, Anna; Hollingworth, Sumi – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2007
This paper discusses the ways in which inner-city, ethnically diverse, working-class girls' constructions of hetero-femininities mediate and shape their dis/engagement with education and schooling. Drawing on data from a study conducted with 89 urban, working-class young people in London, attention is drawn to three main ways through which young…
Descriptors: Sexual Identity, Sexuality, Play, Females
"I Used To Get Mad at My School": Representations of Schooling in Rock and Pop Music.
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Brehony, Kevin J. – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 1998
Uses theories from a wide range of disciplines to analyze representations of schooling in rock and pop songs. Examines songs from the 1950s to Britpop and the present. Declares that schooling is overwhelmingly represented as the antithesis of leisure. Addresses other relationships between schooling and music, such as temporality and violence. (CMK)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Educational Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Popular Music
Tracking and the Effects of School-Related Attitudes on the Language Achievement of Boys and Girls
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Van de gaer, Eva; Pustjens, Heidi; Van Damme, Jan; De Munter, Agnes – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2006
In this study we examined whether the underachievement of boys in language at the end of secondary education is related to school-related attitudes. Data were drawn from the LOSO project, a longitudinal research project in secondary education. The results showed that there were gender differences in language achievement in favour of girls in the…
Descriptors: Track System (Education), School Attitudes, Underachievement, Males