TY - JOUR
T1 - Education, Class and Culture
T2 - The Birmingham ethnographic tradition and the problem of the new middle class
AU - Watson, Ian
PY - 1993/1/1
Y1 - 1993/1/1
N2 - The ethnographies of youth culture and schooling Produced by the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies and its followers had a major impact on educational sociology during the late 1970s and 1980s. Despite this invaluable contribution, important theoretical and methodological problems emerged in their treatment of class and culture. In particular, the untheorised presence of the ‘new middle class’and a confusing notion of 'dominant culture’ weakened the coherence of their analyses. This article traces these problems from the early studies of youth culture through to more recent school ethnographies. It concludes by stressing the relevance of critical concepts like class and culture within contemporary debates emerging from the 'new’ educational settlement.
AB - The ethnographies of youth culture and schooling Produced by the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies and its followers had a major impact on educational sociology during the late 1970s and 1980s. Despite this invaluable contribution, important theoretical and methodological problems emerged in their treatment of class and culture. In particular, the untheorised presence of the ‘new middle class’and a confusing notion of 'dominant culture’ weakened the coherence of their analyses. This article traces these problems from the early studies of youth culture through to more recent school ethnographies. It concludes by stressing the relevance of critical concepts like class and culture within contemporary debates emerging from the 'new’ educational settlement.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=21144471966&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/0142569930140205
DO - 10.1080/0142569930140205
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:21144471966
SN - 0142-5692
VL - 14
SP - 179
EP - 197
JO - British Journal of Sociology of Education
JF - British Journal of Sociology of Education
IS - 2
ER -