ERIC Number: EJ1214129
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2019
Pages: 12
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Socio-Sartorial Inscriptions of Social Class in a Study of School and Identity in Ireland
Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, v40 n3 p294-305 2019
This paper explores how classed identities are constituted through the socio-sartorial inscriptions of a working-class school and community in an Irish city in the twenty-first century. The data of the paper were generated through a wider three-year critical ethnography of a school community. The focus here is upon the identity work of the participants as it is connected to the school and the wider community. The article makes a particular contribution to the conversation of cultural constructions of class; in this instance through socio-sartorialism and how cultural capital is embodied and performed through people. The paper offers illustrative cases formed from participant interviews and an analysis of how socio-sartorial inscription contributes to the making of class in educational contexts.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Class, Working Class, Cultural Capital, Clothing, Social Discrimination, Secondary School Students, Resistance (Psychology), Identification
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Ireland
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