Working-class participation, middle-class aspiration? Value, upward mobility and symbolic indebtedness in higher education.

Autor/in	Loveday, Vik
Titel	Working-class participation, middle-class aspiration? Value, upward mobility and symbolic indebtedness in higher education. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Steht die Hochschulbildung von Arbeitern für Erwartungen des Aufstiegs in die Mittelklasse? Wertorientierungen, Aufwärtsmobilität und symbolische Verpflichtung in der Hochschulbildung.
Quelle	In: The sociological review, 63 (2015) 3, S. 570-588 PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0038-0261; 1467-954X
DOI	10.1111/1467-954X.12167
Schlagwörter	Kultur; Bildungsmobilität; Bildungsmotivation; Mittelschicht; Sozialer Wert; Soziale Mobilität; Arbeiterklasse; Wertorientierung; Kapital; Sozialkapital; Sozialer Aufstieg; Hochschulbildung; Studienmotivation; Habitus; Bourdieu, Pierre; England; Großbritannien
Abstract	This paper interrogates the relationship between working-class participation in higher education (HE) in England and social and cultural mobility. It argues that embarking on a university education for working-class people has been construed in governmental discourses as an instrumental means of achieving upward mobility, or of aspiring to 'become middle class'. Education in this sense is thus not only understood as having the potential to confer value on individuals, as they pursue different 'forms of capital', or symbolic 'mastery' (Bourdieu, 1986), but as incurring a form of debt to society. In this sense, the university can be understood as a type of 'creditor' to whom the working-class participants are symbolically indebted, while the middle classes pass through unencumbered. Through the analysis of empirical research conducted with staff from working-class backgrounds employed on a university Widening Participation project in England, the article examines resistance to dominant educational discourses, which understand working-class culture as 'deficient' and working-class participation in HE as an instrumental means of securing upward mobility. Challenging the problematic notion of 'escape' implicit in mobility discourses, this paper concludes by positing the alternative concept of 'fugitivity', to contest the accepted relationship in HE between creditor and debtor. (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2016/1