Class acts? Working class student officers in students’ unions
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11166370 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ruth Squire (0000-0002-1919-2917, Institute of Education, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UK, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 377-392 |
| Publication date | 2020-04-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | British Journal of Sociology of Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0142-5692 • E-ISSN: 1465-3346 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01425692.2019.1707066 |
| OpenAlex | W2998269801 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 33 |
This article explores the recent emergence of ‘working-class student officer’ roles in students’ unions associated with elite UK universities. These student representative roles are designed to represent the interests of working-class students within their universities and sit alongside student representatives for liberation groups and/or student communities. Based on interviews with postholders and using Bourdieu’s concepts of habitus and field and Reay’s applications of a ‘reflexive habitus’, I explore how these students have come to assert a public and political ‘working-class student’ identity within their universities. Their commentaries reveal the ‘makings of class’ in a context where students are very aware of claims for recognition and the ‘hidden injuries of class’ and offer an insight into how working-class students are finding new ways to navigate their classed identities in HE
Class (philosophy · Context (archaeology · Cultural capital · Elite · Epistemology · Habitus · Identity (music · Meritocracy · Officer · Pedagogy · Political science · Politics · Reflexivity · Social class · Social science · Sociology · Working class · Gender Studies · Higher Education Governance and Development · Higher Education Practises and Engagement · Higher Education Research Studies · Law
Outline of a Theory of Practice
Formations of Class and Gender
The Logic of Practice
Power between habitus and reflexivity – introducing Margaret Archer to the power debate
Students’ unions and consumerist policy discourses in English higher education
Student voice and the politics of listening in higher education
Student retention in higher education
Different strokes for different folks
Distancing to self‐protect
University as vocational education
La noblesse d'état anglaise ? Social class and progression to postgraduate study
Extra‐credential experiences and social closure
Fitting in’ or ‘standing out’
Integrating critical realist and feminist methodologies
Sociology in question
Finding or losing yourself
The class politics of prejudice
Twenty-First Century Dis-Ease? Habitual Reflexivity Or the Reflexive Habitus
Challenging Cultures? Student Conceptions of 'Belonging' and 'Isolation' at a Post-1992 University
An Invitation of Reflexive Sociology
Habitus Clivé and the Emotional Imprint of Social Mobility
The Chameleon Habitus
On the ethics of interviewing for discourse analysis
From Reproduction to Transformation
Critical Mass, Social Networks and Collective Action
Strangers in Paradise
Becoming Middle Class
Beyond Consciousness
The fall and rise of class analysis in British sociology, 1950-2016
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,8 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2025 (5) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |