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Autor/inn/en | Allen, Kim; Mendick, Heather |
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Titel | Young People's Uses of Celebrity: Class, Gender and "Improper" Celebrity |
Quelle | In: Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 34 (2013) 1, S.77-93 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift
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Sprache | englisch |
Dokumenttyp | gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz |
ISSN | 0159-6306 |
DOI | 10.1080/01596306.2012.698865 |
Schlagwörter | Foreign Countries; Adolescents; Young Adults; Popular Culture; Reputation; Role; Social Status; Student Attitudes; Neoliberalism; Social Class; Gender Issues; Sexuality; Occupational Aspiration; Academic Aspiration; Value Judgment; Resistance (Psychology); Expectation; United Kingdom (England) Ausland; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Young adult; Junger Erwachsener; Popkultur; Rollen; Sozialer Status; Schülerverhalten; Neo-liberalism; Neoliberalismus; Social classes; Soziale Klasse; Geschlechterfrage; Sexualität; Berufsneigung; Berufsziel; Werturteil; Resistenz; Expectancy; Erwartung |
Abstract | In this article, we explore the question of how celebrity operates in young people's everyday lives, thus contributing to the urgent need to address celebrity's social function. Drawing on data from three studies in England on young people's perspectives on their educational and work futures, we show how celebrity operates as a classed and gendered discursive device within young people's identity work. We illustrate how young people draw upon class and gender distinctions that circulate within celebrity discourses (proper/improper, deserving/undeserving, talented/talentless and respectable/tacky) as they construct their own identities in relation to notions of work, aspiration and achievement. We argue that these distinctions operate as part of neoliberal demands to produce oneself as a "subject of value". However, some participants produced readings that show ambivalence and even resistance to these dominant discourses. Young people's responses to celebrity are shown to relate to their own class and gender position. (Contains 2 tables and 6 notes.) (As Provided). |
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Update | 2017/4/10 |