Habitus Transformation and Hidden Injuries: Successful Working-Class University Students

Autor/in	Lehmann, Wolfgang
Titel	Habitus Transformation and Hidden Injuries: Successful Working-Class University Students
Quelle	In: Sociology of Education, 87 (2014) 1, S.1-15 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0038-0407
DOI	10.1177/0038040713498777
Schlagwörter	Working Class; Academic Achievement; College Students; Longitudinal Studies; Qualitative Research; Foreign Countries; Research Universities; Cultural Capital; Interviews; Student Attitudes; Occupational Aspiration; Transformative Learning; Parent Child Relationship; Peer Relationship; Socioeconomic Background; Social Differences; Personal Narratives; Canada + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Arbeiterklasse; Schulleistung; Collegestudent; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Qualitative Forschung; Ausland; Forschungseinrichtung; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Schülerverhalten; Berufsneigung; Berufsziel; Pädagogische Transformation; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Peer-Beziehungen; Sozioökonomische Lage; Sozialer Unterschied; Erlebniserzählung; Kanada
Abstract	As the numbers of working-class students at university grow, we need to gain a better understanding of the different ways in which they consolidate their working-class habitus with the middle-class culture of the academic field. Drawing on data from a four-year longitudinal, qualitative study of working-class students at a large, research-intensive Canadian university, I focus on the experiences of those participants who fully embraced, became integrated, and achieved academic success at university. They not only spoke about gaining new knowledge, but also about growing personally, changing their outlooks on life, growing their repertoire of cultural capital, and developing new dispositions and tastes about a range of issues, from food to politics and their future careers. Yet, the interviews also reflect a complex and complicated mix of allegiances to and dismissal of their working-class roots, as many recognize this transformative process as having made relationships with parents or former friends and peers more difficult. The article concludes with a discussion of the implications for working-class students who increasingly distance themselves from the class culture in which they grew up, but who are still likely to find themselves in adult situations in which they are perceived as cultural outsiders. (As Provided).
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