2) class identity

Question 1

(CI) Habitus definition

Answer 1

Way of life for social class

Question 2

(CI) Symbolic capital definition

Answer 2

Being wealthy in terms of status

Question 3

(CI) Symbolic Violence Definition

Answer 3

where the behaviour or habitus of others is devalued as inferior

Question 4

(CI) Social Suicide Definition

Answer 4

Not conforming to style standards leading to negative responses from peers

Question 5

(CI) Self Exclusion definition

Answer 5

Taking yourself out of a situation

Question 6

(CI) Habitus

Answer 6

how pupils’ class identities formed outside school interact with the schools values to produce educational success and failure
Archer et al - working class identities in school and how it produces underachievement, drawing on Bourdieu’s habitus,
MC have power to define their habitus as superior, imposing it on education. schools put higher value on MC tastes, links to Bourdieu’s idea of cultural capital

Question 7

(CI) Symbolic Capital and Symbolic Violence

Answer 7

Archer - found that WC pupils felt to be successful in education they had to change themselves. education success came at cost of ‘losing yourself’ couldn’t access posh MC places like uni - ‘not for likes of us’
Schools have MC habitus, MC socialisation gains ‘symbolic capital’ and status from school
WC habitus devalued, seemingly tasteless and worthless
Bourdieu calls this withholding of symbolic capital ‘symbolic violence’, reproducing class structure and keeps WC ‘in place’

Question 8

(CI) Nike identities

Answer 8

Symbolic violence led them to seek alternative way of creating self
worth
meaningful class identities, investing in styles of branded clothes like Nike.
Style performances heavily policed by peer groups, not conforming ‘social suicide’
conflict with schools dress code
Archer - schools MC habitus stigmatises WC identity, reject higher education (unrealistic and undesirable) WC pupils could choose to self exclude from ed - doesn’t fit

Question 9

(CI) Working-class identity and educational success

Answer 9

Ingram - some WC pupils succeed. 2 groups of WC Catholic boys from deprived area in Belfast. One went to grammar one went secondary. WC communities great emphasis on conformity, grammar school boys experienced most tension between WC home and MC school. Tracksuit at grammar school - symbolic violence, WC pupils had to abandon WC identity to succeed

Question 10

(CI) Class Identity and Self Exclusion

Answer 10

WC at uni, experience clash between WC identity and higher education habitus, becoming barrier to success.
Evans sees this as ‘self-exclusion’
21 WC girls at SL comp, reluctant to apply to elite ones, wouldn’t fit in
only 4/21 intended to move away to study
Raey et al - self exclusion from elite unis narrows WC pupils success
MC education devaluing experiences of WC as worthless, WC choose between keeping WC identities or abandoning them to conform to MC habitus to succeed