Dealing With Disadvantage

Resilience and the Social Capital of Young People's Networks

Bibliographic Data

ID2328797
AuthorsDorothy Bottrell (0000-0002-5863-6824, The University of Sydney, corresponding author)
Year2009
Volume40
Issue4
Pages476-501
Publication date2009-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueYouth & Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0044-118X • E-ISSN: 1552-8499
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0044118x08327518
OpenAlexW2045112814
LanguageEN
Citations received37
References cited31

This article analyzes how peer and extended networks provide young people with support and resources for dealing with disadvantage. Centering girls' accounts of growing up in the Glebe public housing estate, the difficulties they face, their critiques and aspirations are interpreted as resilience, supported by the social capital of their networks. However, the girls' accounts also explicate youth resistances to school and inevitable trouble through participation in the broader local youth network, raising questions for conceptualizations of social capital. Conflicting orientations of the networks are analyzed in terms of bonding and bridging forms of social capital. However, in specific contexts of school and community, the interrelations of social and cultural capital suggest the significance of recognition as a mechanism for differentiation of young people and for effecting marginalization and privilege

Cultural capital · Disadvantage · Estate · Face (sociological concept) · Political science · Privilege (computing) · Psychological resilience · Public relations · Social capital · Social mobility · Social science · Sociology · Homelessness and Social Issues · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology · Youth Development and Social Support · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics

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