Pupil subcultures:
- Pro-school subcultures - accept school's values & goals.
- Anti-school subcultures - reject the school's values & often invert then.
- Lacey - lower stream pupils form anti-school subcultures as deprived so create own status hierarchy.
Class identities and achievement:
- Archer - middle class defines own habitus as superior so used in education.
- School commits symbolic violence by devaluing working class pupils' habitus.
- Leads to pupils creating alternative class identities & gain symbolic capital from peers.
- Succeeding in school mean sbeing inauthentic & changing how you present yourself to fit in.
Working-clss identity and educational success:
- Ingram - fitting in was difficult for working class grammar school boys as conflict of habitus'.
- Evans - even successful working class girld faced hidden barriers e.g. not fitting in with the habitus of elite universities.
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