Identity Matters: The Centrality of "Conferred Identity" as Symbolic Power and Social Capital in Higher Education Mobility

Autor/in	Holt, Brenda
Titel	Identity Matters: The Centrality of "Conferred Identity" as Symbolic Power and Social Capital in Higher Education Mobility
Quelle	In: International Journal of Inclusive Education, 16 (2012) 9, S.929-940 (12 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1360-3116
DOI	10.1080/13603116.2011.580458
Schlagwörter	Females; Higher Education; Evidence; Foreign Countries; Social Capital; Municipalities; Young Adults; Community Characteristics; Social Structure; Gender Differences; Self Concept; Rural Areas; Access to Education; College Choice; Social Mobility; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Weibliches Geschlecht; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Evidenz; Ausland; Sozialkapital; Magistrat; Young adult; Junger Erwachsener; Sozialstruktur; Geschlechterkonflikt; Selbstkonzept; Rural area; Ländlicher Raum; Education; Access; Bildung; Zugang; Bildungszugang; Studienortwahl; Soziale Mobilität; Australien
Abstract	Although any "choice" young people make about higher education incorporates a subtle interplay of individual agency, circumstance and social structure, the centrality of identity in such life choices for rural young people cannot be underestimated. Since mobility is an ontological absolute for most rural young people accessing university, it is essential to understand better how identity, choice, agency and social structure work together as social capital. In a 4-year study of young rural women from small towns in Australia who move to an elite city university, I found that "deciding" to access university education involved a complex amalgam of imbricating factors, but all involved a strong identity construct as "one who would move". Bourdieu's concept of symbolic power is re-appropriated and utilised here to explain the evidence of what I call in this paper a "conferred identity"--symbolic power conferred onto the young women over time that works to enable and propel their mobility. (As Provided).
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