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Assured optimism in a Scottish girls’ school: habitus and the (re)production of global privilege
- Source :
- British Journal of Sociology of Education. 36:116-136
- Publication Year :
- 2014
- Publisher :
- Informa UK Limited, 2014.
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Abstract
- This paper examines how high levels of social–cultural connectedness and academic excellence, inflected by gender and social class, constitute a particular school habitus of ‘assured optimism’ at an elite Scottish girls’ school. In Bourdieuian terms, Dalrymple is a ‘forcing ground’ for the ‘intense cultivation’ of a particular privileging habitus. The paper analyses the ‘institutional’ habitus of this particular private girls’ school, drawing on headteacher interviews and student survey and focus group data, and relevant documents. The school is currently re-positioning itself to educate girls for global professional futures through the production of a desired habitus and certain spatio-temporalities.
- Subjects :
- Sociology and Political Science
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spatio-temporalities
Gender studies
Social class
Focus group
Education
multiple capitals
elite schooling
Optimism
Excellence
assured optimism
Elite
Habitus
soft practices
Sociology
Social science
habitus
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Career development
Social capital
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14653346 and 01425692
- Volume :
- 36
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- British Journal of Sociology of Education
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....7f1ef1b69dcb848997d6ed4101007c8b