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Class acts? Working class student officers in students' unions.
- Source :
- British Journal of Sociology of Education; Apr2020, Vol. 41 Issue 3, p377-392, 16p
- Publication Year :
- 2020
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Abstract
- This article explores the recent emergence of 'working-class student officer' roles in students' unions associated with elite UK universities. These student representative roles are designed to represent the interests of working-class students within their universities and sit alongside student representatives for liberation groups and/or student communities. Based on interviews with postholders and using Bourdieu's concepts of habitus and field and Reay's applications of a 'reflexive habitus', I explore how these students have come to assert a public and political 'working-class student' identity within their universities. Their commentaries reveal the 'makings of class' in a context where students are very aware of claims for recognition and the 'hidden injuries of class' and offer an insight into how working-class students are finding new ways to navigate their classed identities in HE. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 01425692
- Volume :
- 41
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- British Journal of Sociology of Education
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 144283163
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/01425692.2019.1707066