Habitus Flashcards
What is habitus
taken for granted way of thinking, being and acting shared by a social class including lifestyle, consumption, outlook on life, formed as a response to its position in the class structure
How are MC pupils advantaged due to habitus?
MC has power to define its habitus as superior and impose it on education, school puts a higher value on MC tasts
Describe symbolic capital and violence
MC gain symbolic capital or status from school, WC withheld this symbolic capital so is symbolic violence, reproduces class structure
What did archer find
WC students to gain educational success they had to “lose themsecves” and felt unable to access posh MC spaces ie uni
Describe nike identities
Constructed class identities by investing in styles ie Nike, wearing brands way of being me without they feel inauthentic
Heavily policed by peers and not conforming was “social suicide”
Led to conflict with dress code - labelled as rebels
MC habitus stigmatises WC identities
Plays part in uni - seen as unrealistic and undesirable - unable to wear street style
Describe Ingrams study based on WC identity and educational success
Two groups of WC catholic boys from highly deprived area in Belfast
1 group passed 11+ - grammar
others went to loca; secondary school
Grammar had strong habitus
Secondary had lower expectations
Neighbourhoods dense networks of family and friends key part of boys havitus - feeling of belonging
Grammar boys found it hard to fit in due to conlifct between habitus
Describe class identity and self exclusion
Habitus is a barrier to success
Evans - 21 girls from London comp - reluctant to apply to elite unis as they did not fit in
“not for the likes of us” so it becomes part of their identity and they exclude themselves
Strong attachement to locality - 1/21 wanted to move away
