Bullshit as Resistance: Justifying Unearned Privilege among Students at an Elite Boarding School

Autor/in	Gaztambide-Fernandez, Ruben
Titel	Bullshit as Resistance: Justifying Unearned Privilege among Students at an Elite Boarding School
Quelle	In: International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 24 (2011) 5, S.581-586 (6 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0951-8398
DOI	10.1080/09518398.2011.600272
Schlagwörter	Working Class; Boarding Schools; Focus Groups; Ethnography; Educational Change; Advantaged; Interviews; Role; Student Attitudes + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Arbeiterklasse; Boarding school; Internat; Ethnografie; Bildungsreform; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Rollen; Schülerverhalten
Abstract	Resistance is typically framed around the experiences of youth with oppression within institutions and through "intersecting" systems of domination. Resistance among those who benefit the most from current institutional arrangements, like students attending elite schools, has rarely been considered in how resistance is theorized. This postcard is based on two years of ethnographic research into the process by which students at one elite boarding school internalize elite status and convince themselves that they deserve the privileges of an elite education. Drawing on interview and focus group data, I explore the role of what the students describe as "bullshit" as both a form of resistance as well as a key lesson in the process of becoming elite while disguising the appearance of unearned privilege. I draw a parallel between "having a laff" as a form of working class resistance, and bullshit as a form of resistance among ruling elites. (Contains 2 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10