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Kennelly Jacqueline & Dillabough Jo-Anne (2008). « Young people mobilizing the language of citizenship : Struggles for classification and new meaning in an uncertain world ». British Journal of Sociology of Education, vol. 29, n° 5, septembre, p. 493–508.
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| Resource type: Journal Article DOI: 10.1080/01425690802263643 BibTeX citation key: Kennelly2008  |
Categories: General Keywords: Canada, Ă©ducation civique Creators: Dillabough, Kennelly Collection: British Journal of Sociology of Education |
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"This paper presents research findings from an ethnographic study carried out with 24 low-income youths (ages 14–16) living on the economic fringes of urban inner-city Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Our primary aims are: to expose the stratified subcultural articulations of citizenship as they are expressed, through language and symbol, by the young people within our study; and to demonstrate how critiques of (neo-)liberalism in political thought, when combined with a cultural sociology of youth, might alter our subcultural reading of young people’s conceptions of citizenship under the dynamics of radical social change. Our ultimate goal is to develop a more nuanced sociological examination of the ways in which young people deploy and utilize the language of citizenship as part of their own cultural struggles, exacerbated in times of state retrenchment, to classify themselves and others as one method of achieving visibility and legitimacy in urban concentrations of poverty". Added by: Feyfant Annie |