Rethinking Social Class: Qualitative Perspectives on Class and Gender

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Rethinking Social Class Qualitative Perspectives
on Class and Gender

• ??D. Reay
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• MA in Human Rights and Education
• (London University)
• PhD in Social Sciences (South Bank University)
• ????Sociology of Education Social Class Theory
  Education Policy Gender and Education
• ???? University of Cambridge, Faculty of
  Education
• ????British Journal of Sociology of Education
  Gender and Education the Journal of Education
  Policy and Sociology

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Research Topics

• Bourdieus Theory of Practice
• Social class
• Masculinities and Femininities in Education
• Higher Education Choice and Access
• Pupil Peer Group cultures
• Social identities
• Psycho-social Approaches to Identity

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• Reay D. Class work Mothers' involvement in their
  children's primary schooling (1998)
• Reay D. A useful extension of Bourdieu's
  conceptual framework? Emotional capital as a way
  of understanding mothers' involvement in
  children's schooling Sociological Review (2000)
  48 568-585
• Reay D. Mainly roughs and toughs Class, race and
  representation in the inner city Sociology
  (2004a,)

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• D, Reay (2006) Cultural Capital Theories
  Encyclopedia of Gender and Education (ed) B Bank
  New York Greenwood Press.
• D Reay (2005) 'Beyond Consciousness? The Psychic
  Landscape of Social Class' Sociology Special
  Issue of Class, Culture and identity vol 39 no 5,
  911-928.
• Reay, D (2004) Gendering Bourdieu's concept of
  capitals? Emotional capital, women and social
  class in L Adkins and B Skeggs (ed) Feminism
  after Bourdieu
• D Reay (2004) 'It's all becoming a habitus'
  Beyond the habitual use of Pierre Bourdieu's
  concept of habitus in educational research
  ,British Journal of Sociology of Education on
  Pierre Bourdieu vol 25 no 4, pp 431-444
• D Reay (2004) Education and Cultural Capital The
  implications of changing trends in education
  policies Cultural Trends 13 no 2, 1-14

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• Class a complicated mixture of the material,
  the discursive, psychological predispositions and
  sociological dispositions.
• Combining quantitative approaches to social class
  with more qualitative studies
• Explore how class are lived in gendered and raced
  ways.

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• Occupational measurement
• Class perceived as an issue of where you are
  situated
• male territory of the labour market
• the missing role of women in class formation
• Lack of discussing the contribution of gender to
  economic inequality

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• Feminisms in 1990s abandon social class as an
  important social division
• Reay proposing a view of class as social process

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Contemporary discourses of classlessness

• The demise of class (Pakulski Waters 1996)
  other discourses of classlessness
• 1.a decentering of economic relationships
  (property and production-based) - operate in
  class interests
• 2. a shift in patterns of group formation and
  lines of sociopolitical cleavage - denying
  social advantage of the privileged

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• 3.Marketization - a middle-class mode of social
  engagement
• 4.Baudrillards postmodernist discourses
  (??????????)

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Anti-discourses of classlessness

• 1.operate in class interests
• 2.denying social advantage of the privileged
• 3. a middle-class mode of social
  engagement-????????????
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• 5.?????????? - ????? - a spoilt identity a
  stigmatised group

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New Ways of Envisioning class?

• Class is part of the micro-politics of people
  lives. It is lived in and through peoples
  bodies and permeates their thinking as powerfully
  as gender, race, age and sexuality.
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• Including the emotional politics of class
• ?a politics of dis-identification,

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Academic texts about class

• always middle-class versions
• The inability of working-class to construct an
  authentic working class identity
• The working classes do not choose the dominant
  discourses within which they have to position
  themselves.

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Class talk Mother making sense

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• ??build up a detailed picture of their class
  position by asking about womens educational
  histories, those of their partners and their
  parents, occupations, self-identity
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• Class connotations (inner city, children from
  families who dont care)
• Good/bad parents end up letting your kids down
  quality time
• Women who are in a contradictory class
  positionings
• 1.A sense of powerlessness in relation to the
  educational system
• 2. Lack of self-certainty of middle-class habitus

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• Class is a complicated mixture of the material,
  the discursive, psychological predispositions and
  sociological dispositions.
• Need qualitative data

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