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SES G 02, Paper Session
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Contribution
For years sociology of education has been talking about classed injustice in educational process. These are however top-down, or to be more precise, researchers’ secondary constructs. How and how much the researched themselves, especially those under eighteen years of age, say junior high school students, know about injustice is not properly, if ever, asked. Bourdieuan theorists may say young agents know little about injustice because they live in it as much as fish in the water, and it is exactly that they know little shows the everywhere and nowhere power of class. Is it true that students know nothing?
On the other hand, according to some researchers, Furlong and Cartmel (1997), and Brannen and Nilsen (2005), to name just a few, students may consider class dead and may think they can as the individuallizationists Beck (1992) and Giddens (1999) suggest, create their own choice/reflexive biographies, instead of following the beaten paths their fathers once kept to. Furlong et al. call this ‘epistemic fallacy’; that is, structure, or classed inequality, becomes invisible[1] to young agents. They are misled into believing class is a once-upon-a-time thing and are in that sense made blind with their eyes wild open. Is it true that students see nothing?
This study tries to answer the aforementioned questions with real data, and by doing so, shows the incredulity of individualization theories and Bourdieuan argumentations as well.
[1] Lawler (2005) in comparison is more conservative. In his viewpoint, class is ‘less seen’ but no less present.
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References
Beck, U. (1992). Risk society: toward a new modernity. London: Sage Publications. Bourdieu, P. (1984/1993). Sociology in question. Trans. by N. Richard. London: Sage Publications. Brannen, J. & Nilsen, A. (2005). Individualization, choice and structure: a discussion of current trends in sociological analysis. The Sociological Review, 53(3), 412-428. Furlong, A. & Cartmel, F. (1997). Young people and social change: individualization and risk in late modernity. Buckingham: Open University Press. Giddens, A. (1999). Runaway world. London: Profile Books. Lawler, S. (2005). Introduction: Culture, culture and identity. Sociology, 39(5), 797-806.
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