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'HARD WORKERS': SUBJECTIVITIES AND SOCIAL CLASS IN COLLEGIATE CROSS COUNTRY.
- Source :
- British Journal of Educational Studies; Dec2020, Vol. 68 Issue 6, p733-751, 19p
- Publication Year :
- 2020
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Abstract
- In this paper, I use interview data drawn from ethnographic work on a Division 1 collegiate cross country team at a large midwestern university in the United States to demonstrate the ways that possessive individualistic discourses around hard work are embodied in classed subjectivities. I find that middle class women, the products of concerted cultivation, tend to focus on the display of hard work, and have anxiety around the value of their production of a hard-working identity. Working class women tend to treat the experience of being disciplined as an athlete as a fortunate opportunity to build physical capital, using the hard work to benefit them as athletes rather than to build their identities. These different attitudes, affected by social class, interact with a dominant discourse around hard work demonstrating the interaction between agency and structure when it comes to forming identities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00071005
- Volume :
- 68
- Issue :
- 6
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- British Journal of Educational Studies
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 147858385
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00071005.2020.1720593