nike identities
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- Created on: 24-01-23 21:14
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- nike identities
- symbolic violence
- many students were conscious that society looked down on them
- leads them to seek alternative ways of creating self worth. investing themselves in styles like nike
- rejection of higher education
- nike styles play part in working-class pupils rejection of higher education
- unrealistic
- not for people like them but for richer smarter people
- unaffordable and risky advestment
- undesirable
- would not be able to afford higher education
- would not suit their preferred lifestyle
- non-conforming
- not conforming was social suicide
- could be bullied and not get approval from peer groups
- conflict
- conflict with schools dress code
- reflecting the schools middle-class habitus teachers opposed 'street styles'
- gendered
- girls adapted a hyper-heterosexual feminine style
- pupils identities were also strongly gendered
- archer et al
- w/c pupils may choose self-elimination from education
- working class pupils investment in 'nike' identities is not only a cause of their educational marginalisation by school also expresses their positive preference for a particular lifestyle
- symbolic violence
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