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What is symbolic capital? |
Refers to status, recognition and sense of worth that can be obtained from others |
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What does Archer believe about symbolic capital and working class girls? |
Archer believes by performing their working class feminine identities these girls gained symbolic capital from peers but brought them into conflict with schools' ethos. |
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What are the strategies Archer identified that girls followed fro creating a valued sense of self? |
Hyper-heterosexual feminine identify, having a boyfriend and being loud. |
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What are hyper-heterosexual feminine identities? |
Girls invested time, effort and money into making desirable hyper-heterosexual feminine identities. This brought status from their female peer group but, brought them into conflict with the school - symbolic violence. |
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What is symbolic violence? |
Harm done by denying someone symbolic capital |
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What are the impacts of boyfriends? |
Brought symbolic capital, but gets in way of schoolwork and lowers girls' aspirations. Restricts them as they want to settle down instead of going on to Uni. |
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What are the impacts of being loud? |
Led to them being independent and assertive such as questioning teachers' authority. Brought conflict with teachers as clashed with stereotype of ideal female identity - passive and submissive to authority. |
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What is the working-class girls' dilemma? |
-Either gaining symbolic capital by hyper-heterosexual feminine identity. -Or gaining educational capital by rejecting working class identity and conforming to school's middle class notions of a respectable ideal female pupil. |
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How did some girls try to cope with this dilemma? |
By identifying as good underneath despite teachers' negative views of them. This reflects girls' struggle to achieve a sense of self-worth within an education system that devalues their working-class feminine identities. |
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What was found by Evan when studying successful working class girls? |
Girls wanted to go to uni to increase their earning power, but was to help their families. |
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What was found by Skeggs when studying successful working class girls |
Economic necessity another reason for living at home. Made it more affordable but limited choice of uni and market value of their degree. |
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What did Archer find when studying successful working class girls? |
Preference for the local was a key feature of working class habitus. |
