Tradition Making and Tradition Breaking : Female students' Perspectives on Education
Författare
Summary, in English
What is the girls' understanding of the formal liberty of choice in the educational system? Is there in the girls' approach to education any indication of their breaking traditional patterns of segregation, and how are their perspectives changing over time?
The issues are addressed by a qualitative, longitudinal interview study. The fifteen interviewees were strategically chosen to represent different housing and educational environments. For a succession of years, from the ninth and last year of comprehensive school until two years after they had left or would have left upper secondary school, the girls were interviewed about their life experiences and the choices associated with the transition from one school form to another. The interviews are qualitative, thematically structured, allowing the interviewees free scope to tell about themselves and their lives.
The girls' narratives give us a better understanding of the strength of tradition, but also demonstrate the dynamics in social processes of change. Through choices of education, in the field of tension between individual hopes and expectations and institutional and structural possibilities and obstacles, we get an insight into how social (socio-economic, sex, ethnic) segregation patterns are reproduced but also changed.
Avdelning/ar
Publiceringsår
1998
Språk
Svenska
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Lund Dissertations in Sociology
Issue
21
Dokumenttyp
Doktorsavhandling
Förlag
Department of Sociology, Lund University
Ämne
- Sociology (excluding Social Work, Social Psychology and Social Anthropology)
Nyckelord
- self-discipline
- self-denial
- self-realization
- educational perspectives
- subject
- narrative
- the formal liberty of choice
- gender
- education
- sex
- Sociology
- biography and history
- self-assertion
- social segregation
- Sociologi
Status
Published
Handledare
- [unknown] [unknown]
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 1102-4712
- ISBN: 91-89078-27-6
- ISRN: LUSAGD/SASO--98/1114--SE
Försvarsdatum
12 mars 1998
Försvarstid
10:15
Försvarsplats
Edens hörsal, Paradisgatan 5H, Lund
Opponent
- Lennart Svensson (Docent)