International Perspectives on Theorizing Aspirations: Applying Bourdieu's Tools

Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of Figures and Tables
Notes on Contributors
Series Editor’s Foreword
Foreword
Introduction: Using Bourdieu to Theorize Aspirations
	A Bourdieusian theoretical approach
	Bourdieusian theory and the study of aspirations
	Aims of the collection
	Outline of chapters
	Conclusion
	References
Part 1 Advancing Bourdieu’s Conceptual Tools
	Chapter 1 Maybe It Is for the Likes of Us: Reconsidering Classed Higher Education and Graduate Employment Trajectories
		Introduction
		Thinking with Bourdieu: Habitus, capital and field
		An empirical approach to a theoretical question
		Reflections on findings: Putting Bourdieu to work
		Conclusion
		Note
		Recommended further reading
		References
	Chapter 2 Bourdieu is Not a Determinist: Illusio, Aspiration, Reflexivity and Affect
		Introduction
		‘Determinism’ and Bourdieu’s underutilized concepts
		Using illusio to think about aspiration, motivation, commitment and reward
		Reimagining illusio through the problem of reflexivity
		Conclusion
		Recommended further reading
		References
Part 2 Using and Developing Habitus
	Chapter 3 Young People’s Educational Expectations, Aspirations and Choices: The Role of Habitus, Gender and Fields
		Introduction
		Working-class habitus and students’ dispositions and subjectivities
		Gendering habitus and students’ identities
		Institutional habitus or the crucial importance of educational fields
		Conclusions
		Notes
		Recommended further reading
		References
	Chapter 4 Putting Habitus to Work: Habitus Clivé, Negotiated Aspirations and a Counter-Habitus?
		Introduction
		Habitus, dispositions and aspiration
		A habitus clivé
		Theorizing a counter-habitus?
		Discussion
		Conclusion
		Recommended further reading
		References
Part 3 Using and Developing Theoretical Approaches to Capital
	Chapter 5 Operationalizing Bourdieu for the Study of Student Aspirations: Conceptual and Methodological Challenges
		Introduction
		Understanding conceptions of capital
		Applying conceptions of capital
		Discussion
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Recommended further reading
		References
	Chapter 6 Shadow Capital and the Undermining of College-Going Aspirations
		Introduction
		Understanding Bourdieu’s tools: The states of cultural capital and forms of habitus in the field of US secondary education
		Applying Bourdieu’s tools: Dominant cultural capital within non-dominant schools
		Discussion and concluding thoughts
		Notes
		Recommended further reading
		References
Part 4 Advancing Bourdieu’s Concepts in the Field of Education
	Chapter 7 Aspirations and the Histories of Elite State Schools in London: Field Theory, Circuits of Education and the Embodiment of Symbolic Capital
		Introduction
		Bourdieu’s historical analysis, field theory and ‘circuits of education’
		The context and the accrual of symbolic capital within the field
		Methodology
		Institutional histories: Framing the development of elite aspirations
		Discussion: A historical–institutional approach to aspiration
		Conclusion: History and educational hierarchy as processes of accumulation
		Acknowledgements
		Notes
		Recommended further reading
		References
	Chapter 8 Thinking with Bourdieu about Teachers’ Pedagogies and Their Dispositions for Social Justice: Unthinkingness in Aspiration Formation
		Introduction
		Understanding Bourdieu’s tools
		Applying Bourdieu’s tools
		Discussion
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Recommended further reading
		References
Part 5 Bourdieusian Perspectives on Aspirations and Gender
	Chapter 9 ‘It Was Noticeable So I Changed’: Supergirls, Aspirations and Bourdieu
		Introduction
		Thinking gender and aspiration through Bourdieu’s theory
		Operationalizing habitus, field and the forms of capital
		Methodology and the study
		Using theory to interrogate the data
		Zara’s aspirations
		Discussion
		Conclusion
		Note
		Recommended further reading
		References
	Chapter 10 Bourdieu Plus: Understanding the Creation of Agentic, Aspirational Girl Subjects in Elite Schools
		Introduction
		Family and aspired-to futures in school: Habitus knittings that stick
		Habitus and aspiration
		Final reflections
		Recommended further reading
		References
Part 6 Ethnic Inequalities and Identities: Assessing Bourdieu’s Tools
	Chapter 11 Aspirations in Britain’s Caribbean Diaspora: Applying Bourdieu’s Doxa
		Introduction
		The utility of doxa: Challenging the deficits
		Caribbean migration to Britain: A history of diaspora, disadvantage and disappointment
		Deficit doxa: Caribbeans failing?
		The study
		The rewards of articulating aspirations
		Recommended further reading
		References
	Chapter 12 Bourdieu in Nigeria: The Colonial Habitus and Elite Nigerian Parents’ Aspirations for Their Children
		Introduction
		Researching elites
		Operationalizing Bourdieu’s key concepts in elite identity formation
		Frantz Fanon: The ‘colonial condition’
		Working with Bourdieu and Fanon: ‘White’ schools as a strategy of distinction for elite Nigerian parents
		Concluding thoughts
		Notes
		Recommended further reading
		References
	Chapter 13 Bridging the Gap: Using Bourdieu and Critical Race Theory to Understand the Importance of Black Middle-Class Parents’ Educational Aspirations for Their Children
		Introduction
		Bridging Bourdieu and Critical Race Theory (CRT)
		Black middle-class operationalizing capital
		Applying Bourdieu’s tools and CRT to the ‘movers’
		Discussion
		Conclusion
		Recommended further reading
		References
Index