Symbolic violence and the neighbourhood: The educational aspirations of 7-8 year old working-class girls

British Journal of Sociology

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 511-529

  Connolly, Paul ^a   Healy, Julie ^b  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b Barnardo's Northern Ireland   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Education; Figuration; Gender; Habitus; Social class; Symbolic violence

Indexed keywords

EID: 10844223456     PISSN: 00071315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-4446.2004.00035.x     Document Type: Review

References (69)

1. Apter, T. 1990 Altered Lives: Mothers and Daughters During Adolescence, New York: St. Martins Press.
2. Arnot, M., David, M. and Weiner, G. 1999 Closing the Gender Gap: Postwar Education and Social Change, Cambridge: Polity Press.
3. Blackman, S.J. 2000 'The School: "Poxy Cupid!" - An Ethnographic and Feminist Account of a Resistant Female Youth Culture: The New Wave Girls' in T. Skelton and G. Valentine (eds) Cool Places: Geographies of Youth Cultures, Routledge: London.
4. Boal, F. 1999 'From Undivided Cities to Undivided Cities: Assimilation to Ethnic Cleansing', Housing Studies 14(5): 585-600.
5. Bourdieu, P. 1977 Outline of a Theory of Practice, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
6. Bourdieu, P. 1990 The Logic of Practice, Cambridge: Polity Press.
7. Bourdieu, P. and Passeron, J. 1977 Reproduction in Education, Society and Culture, London: Sage.
8. Burton, F. 1978 The Politics of Legitimacy: Struggles in a Belfast Community, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.
9. Callaghan, G. 1992 'Locality and Localism: The Spatial Orientation of Young Adults in Sunderland', Youth & Policy 39(1): 23-33.
10. Chetwynd, J. and Hartnett, O. (eds) 1978 The Sex Role System, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.
11. Clarricoates, K. 1980 'The Importance of Being Earnest, Emma, Tom, Jane', in R. Deem (ed.) Schooling for Women's Work, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.
12. Connolly, P. 1996 'Seen But Never Heard: Rethinking Approaches to Researching Racism and Young Children', Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education 17(2): 171-85.
13. Connolly, P. 1997 'In Search of Authenticity: Researching Young Children's Perspectives', in A. Pollard, D. Thiessen and A. Filer (eds) Children and Their Curriculum: The Perspectives of Primary and Elementary School Children, London: Falmer Press.
14. Connolly, P. 1998 Racism, Gender Identities and Young Children, London: Routledge.
15. Connolly, P. 2000 'What Now for the Contact Hypothesis? Towards a New Research Agenda', Race Ethnicity and Education 3(2): 169-93.
16. Connolly, P. 2001 'Qualitative Methods in the Study of Children's Racial Attitudes and Identities', Infant and Child Development 10(3): 219-33.
17. Connolly, P. 2004 Boys and Schooling in the Early Years, London: RoutledgeFalmer.
18. Connolly, P. and Neill, J. 2001 'Constructions of Locality and Gender and their Impact on the Educational Aspirations of Working-Class Children', International Studies in Sociology of Education 11(2): 107-29.
19. Davies, L. 1984 Pupil Power: Deviance and Gender in Schools, Lewes: Falmer Press.
20. Elias, N. 1978 What is Sociology? London: Hutchinson.
21. Elias, N. 1987 Involvement and Detachment, Oxford: Basil Blackwell.
22. Epstein, D. 1997 'Cultures of Schooling/Cultures of Sexuality', International Journal of Inclusive Education 1(1): 37-53.
23. Francis, B. 1998 Power Plays, Stoke-on-Trent: Trentham Books.
24. Griffin, C. 1985 Typical Girls, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.
25. Griffin, C. 1989 'I'm Not a Woman's Libber, But... Feminism, Consciousness and Identity', in S. Skevington and D. Baker (eds) The Social Identity of Women, London: Sage.
26. Grugeon, E. 1993 'Gender Implications of Children's Playground Culture', in P. Woods and M. Hammersley (eds) Gender and Ethnicity in Schools: Ethnographic Accounts, London: Routledge.
27. Hatcher, R. 1995 'Boyfriends, Girlfriends: Gender and "Race" in Children's Cultures', International Play Journal 3(2): 187-97.
28. Jenkins, R. 1983 Lads, Citizens and Ordinary Kids: Working-Class Youth Life-Styles in Belfast, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.
29. Keith, M. 1993 Race, Riots and Policing, London: UCL Press.
30. Keith, M. 1995 'Making the Street Visible: Placing Racial Violence in Context', New Community 21(4): 551-65.
31. Keith, M. and Pile, S. (eds) 1993 Place and the Politics of Identity, London: Routledge.
32. Kennedy, L. 2000 Race and Urban Space, in Contemporary American Culture, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
33. Kerr, M. 1958 The People of Ship Street, London: Routledge.
34. Lambert, A. 1976 'The sisterhood' in M. Hammersley and P. Woods (eds) The Process of Schooling, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.
35. Leonard, M. 1997 'Women Caring and Sharing in Belfast', in A. Byrne and M. Leonard (eds) Women in Irish Society: A Sociological Reader, Belfast: Beyond the Pale Publications.
36. Mann, C. 1998 'The Impact of Working-Class Mothers on the Educational Success of their Adolescent Daughters at a Time of Social Change', British Journal of Sociology of Education 19(2): 211-26.
37. Massey, D. 1994 Space, Place and Gender, Cambridge: Polity Press.
38. Massey, D. 1995 'Making Spaces, or, Geography is Political Too', Soundings 1(2): 193-208.
39. McLaren, A. 1996 'Coercive Invitations: How Young Women in School Make Sense of Mothering and Waged Labour', British Journal of Sociology of Education 17(3): 279-98.
40. McLaughlin, M. 1993 'Embedded Identities: Enabling Balance in Urban Contexts', in S. B. Heath and M.W. McLaughlin (eds) Identity and Inner-City Youth, New York: Teachers College Press.
41. McRobbie, A. 1978 'Working Class Girls and the Culture of Femininity', in Women's Studies Group, Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies (ed.) Women Take Issue: Aspects of Women's Subordination, London: Hutchinson.
42. McRobbie, A. and Garber, J. 1976 'Girls and Subcultures', in: S. Hall and T. Jefferson (eds) Resistance Through Rituals, London: Hutchinson.
43. McRobbie, A. and Nava, M. (eds) 1984 Gender and Generation, London: Macmillan.
44. Mikel Brown, L. 1997 'Performing Femininities: Listening to White Working-Class Girls in Rural Maine', Journal of Social Issues 53(4): 683-701.
45. Morrissey, M. and Smyth, M. 2002 Northern Ireland After the Good Friday Agreement, London: Pluto Press.
46. Murtagh, B. 2002 The Politics of Territory: Policy and Segregation in Northern Ireland, Basingtstoke: Palgrave.
47. Murtagh, B. 2003 'Territory, Research and Policy Making in Northern Ireland', in O. Hargie and D. Dickson (eds) Researching the Troubles: Social Science Perspectives on the Northern Ireland Conflict, Edinburgh: Mainstream Publishing.
48. Nemerowicz, G. 1979 Children's Perceptions of Gender and Work Roles, New York: Praegar Publishers.
49. Oakley, A. 1972 Sex, Gender and Society, London: Temple Smith.
50. Reay, D. 2000 'Children's Urban Landscapes: Configurations of Class and Place', in S. Munt (ed.) Cultural Studies and the Working Class, London: Cassell.
51. Renold, E. 2000 'Coming out: (Hetero) Sexuality and the Primary School', Gender and Education 12(3) 309-26.
52. Rose, G. 1993 Feminism and Geography, London: Routledge.
53. Saunderson, W. 1997 'Women, Cities and Identity : The Production and Consumption of Gendered Urban Space in Belfast', in A. Byrne and M. Leonard (eds) Women in Irish Society: A Sociological Reader, Belfast: Beyond the Pale Publications.
54. Sharpe, S. 1975 Just Like a Girl, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books.
55. Sharpe, S. 1994 Just Like a Girl (2nd ed.), Harmondsworth: Penguin Books.
56. Short, G. and Carrington, B. 1989 'Discourse on Gender: the Perceptions of Children Aged Between Six and Eleven', in C. Skelton (ed.) Whatever Happens to Little Women? Milton Keynes: Open University Press.
57. Smyth, M. 1998 Half the Battle: Understanding the Impact of the Troubles on Children and Young People, Derry/Londonderry: INCORE.
58. Taylor, I., Evans, K. and Fraser, P. 1996 A Tale of Two Cities: A Study in Manchester and Sheffield, London: Routledge.
59. Thorne, B. 1993 Gender Play, Buckingham: Open University Press.
60. van Krieken, R. 1998 Norbert Elias, London: Routledge.
61. Walkerdine, V. and Lucey, H. 1989 Democracy in the Kitchen, London: Virago.
62. Wallace, C. 1987 'From Girls and Boys to Women and Men: The Social Reproduction of Gender', in M. Arnot and G. Weiner (eds) Gender and the Politics of Schooling, London: Unwin Hyman.
63. Watt, P. and Stenson, K. 1998 'The Street: It's a Bit Dodgy Around Here: Safety, Danger, Ethnicity and Young People's Use of Public Space', in T. Skelton and G. Valentine (eds) Cool Places: Geographies of Youth Culture, London: Routledge.
64. Webster, C. 1996 'Local Heroes: Violent Racism, Localism and Spacism Among Asian and White Young People', Youth & Policy 53(1): 15-27.
65. Weis, L. 1990 Working Class Without Work: High School Students in a De-Industrialised Economy, New York: Routledge.
66. Westwood, S. 1990 'Racism, Black Masculinity and the Politics of Space', in J. Hearn and D. Morgan (eds) Men, Masculinities and Social Theory. London: Unwin Hyman.
67. Williams, J. 1987 Psychology of Women, New York: Norton.
68. Wilson, W.J. 1987 The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner-City, The Underclass and Public Policy, University of Chicago Press: Chicago.
69. Young, M. and Wilmott, P. 1957 Family and Kinship in East London, New York: Penguin.