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The practice of ‘Othering’ in reaffirming white working-class boys’ conceptions of normative identities
- Source :
- Journal of Youth Studies. 20:283-300
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- Informa UK Limited, 2016.
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Abstract
- This paper considers how the practice of ‘Othering’ is used by white working-class boys in Boremund, South London to mark identity boundaries and reaffirm their habitus. Through unearthing themes of difference within the young men’s accounts, the work identifies various ways of ‘doing masculinity’ in two social groups, ‘Boremund Boys’ and ‘emos’, who contrasted greatly in style but who were of the same race, class, and ethnicity. Focusing on the identity negotiations of a small cohort, aged 14–16, the data indicate how a normative white male identity specific to this locale is policed and how ‘Othering’ is employed as a strategy. Using Bourdieu’s tools alongside the hermeneutic of heteronormativity, the research explores how emos, through inverting a traditional working-class masculinity, brought the habitus of Boremund Boys into disjuncture. Within the field of masculinity, the habitus of Boremund Boys, through a process of reorientation, reconciles competing and contrasting conceptions of what it is to be a white working-class male in South London. Refereed/Peer-reviewed
- Subjects :
- Sociology and Political Science
identity work
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Field (Bourdieu)
05 social sciences
050301 education
General Social Sciences
Identity (social science)
Gender studies
Social group
white working-class boys
Working class
emos
050903 gender studies
Masculinity
othering
Normative
Habitus
Sociology
0509 other social sciences
Life-span and Life-course Studies
0503 education
Heteronormativity
habitus
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Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14699680 and 13676261
- Volume :
- 20
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Youth Studies
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....cdac0df07d4ce6a317932e6015f46bfd