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Cahill, Kevin
2019
May
Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education
Socio-sartorial inscriptions of social class in a study of school and identity in Ireland
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Socio-sartorial inscriptions Social class and education Irish education Ethnography Identity
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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.
0159-6306
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01596306.2017.1327422
10.1080/01596306.2017.1327422
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