ERIC Number: EJ855473
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2009-Sep
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New Counter-School Cultures: Female Students' Drug Use at a High-Achieving Secondary School
Fletcher, Adam; Bonell, Chris; Rhodes, Tim
British Journal of Sociology of Education, v30 n5 p549-562 Sep 2009
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. (Contains 1 note.)
Descriptors: Drug Use, Females, Disadvantaged, High Achievement, Secondary School Students, Social Stratification, Case Studies, Interviews, Foreign Countries, Self Concept, Urban Schools, Educational Environment, Secondary School Teachers, School Attitudes, Student School Relationship
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: United Kingdom (London)
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