Psychosocial Aspects of White Middle-Class Identities: Desiring and Defending against the Class and Ethnic 'Other' in Urban Multi-Ethnic Schooling

被引:48
作者
Reay, Diane [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Cambridge, Fac Educ, Cambridge CB2 8PQ, England
来源
SOCIOLOGY-THE JOURNAL OF THE BRITISH SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION | 2008年 / 42卷 / 06期
关键词
psychosocial; urban multi-ethnic schooling; white middle classes;
D O I
10.1177/0038038508096934
中图分类号
C91 [社会学];
学科分类号
030301 ; 1204 ;
摘要
This article draws on qualitative in-depth interviews with 63 white middle-class families whose children attend inner London comprehensives. The white middle classes, as they are inscribed in policy discourses, best fit the ideal of the democratic citizen - individualistic, rational, responsible, participatory, the active chooser. Yet, narratives of white middle-class choice reveal both powerful defences and the power of the affective. Sublimated in the psyche of the majority white middle classes who avoid inner-city comprehensives and the more inclusive parents in this ESRC-funded research project are multifaceted and differing responses to the classed and ethnic 'other'. This article examines frequently overlooked anxieties, conflicts, desires and tensions within middle-class identities generated by education choice policies. However, the main focus is white middle-class relationships to their classed and ethnic 'other', and the part played by the psychosocial in white middle-class identities and identifications within predominantly working-class multi-ethnic schooling.
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页码:1072 / 1088
页数:17
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