White Working-Class Male Narratives of "Loyalty to Self" in Discourses of Aspiration

Autor/in	Stahl, Garth
Titel	White Working-Class Male Narratives of "Loyalty to Self" in Discourses of Aspiration
Quelle	In: British Journal of Sociology of Education, 37 (2016) 5, S.663-683 (21 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0142-5692
DOI	10.1080/01425692.2014.982859
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Secondary School Students; White Students; Males; Working Class; Adolescents; Aspiration; Personal Narratives; Discourse Analysis; Neoliberalism; Values; Low Achievement; Self Concept; Ethnography; Semi Structured Interviews; Focus Groups; Observation; Educational Policy; Identification (Psychology); United Kingdom; United Kingdom (London) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Sekundarschüler; Male; Männliches Geschlecht; Arbeiterklasse; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Streben; Erlebniserzählung; Diskursanalyse; Neo-liberalism; Neoliberalismus; Wertbegriff; Unterdurchschnittliche Leistung; Selbstkonzept; Ethnografie; Beobachtung; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Großbritannien
Abstract	This paper intends to show the processes and identity negotiations of white working-class boys surrounding their own learner-identity within a "raising aspirations" rhetoric. The current dominant neoliberal discourse, which prioritizes a view of aspiration that is competitive, economic, and status-based, shapes the subjectivities of these young males. Focusing on the deeply engrained values of a group of 23 working-class boys from South London, ages 14-16, this research critically considers the conception of aspiration and persistent "educational underachievement". White working-class boys in the United Kingdom are frequently labelled as having "low aspirations" or, indeed, no aspirations at all. Through the use of habitus as a conceptual tool, the research intends to serve as an exploration of how the aspiration rhetoric influenced the boys' conception of "loyalty to self" and their sense of average-ness/ordinariness/"middling". The boys' habitus undergoes complex "identity work" in order to reconcile competing and contrasting conceptions of aspiration. (As Provided).
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