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New counter-school cultures: female students' drug use at a high-achieving secondary school.
- Source :
- British Journal of Sociology of Education; Sep2009, Vol. 30 Issue 5, p549-562, 14p
- Publication Year :
- 2009
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Abstract
- We draw on case-study research at a high-achieving secondary school in London to illustrate how school experiences may influence drug use and reproduce inequalities in reconstructed ways in late modernity. Qualitative data were collected through semi-structured interviews with students and teachers, and observations. We focus in particular on the accounts of three female students expressing a shared counter-school identity and style to explore how drug use has become an important source of bonding, identity construction, coping and excitement for young women from disadvantaged families at high-achieving schools, including as part of strategies to resist the narrow focus schools can place on academic attainment, monitoring and discipline. We propose that, in late modern times, class-based counter-school cultures are being replaced with new consumer-based ones, but that secondary schools continue to act as sites for the reproduction of social stratification, as well as risk and harm relating to drug use. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- YOUTH culture
SCHOOLS research
DRUG abuse
SOCIAL stratification
MODERNITY
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 01425692
- Volume :
- 30
- Issue :
- 5
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- British Journal of Sociology of Education
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 44032316
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/01425690903101049