Literature on methodologies of ethnographic studies (Elina’s lecture)
Berg, Päivi & Lahelma, Elina (2010) Gendering Processes in the Field of
Physical Education, Gender and Education 22(1), 31-46. (draws basicly on
Päivi Berg's ethnographic study on physical education, theoretical
perspectives of Connell, Thorne and Bourdieu are linked)
Lahelma, Elina (2009) Dichotomized metaphors and young people’s
educational routes, European Educational Research Journal 8(4), 497-507.
(an example of ethnographically grounded life historical analysis of
young people's educational transitions)
Gordon, Tuula, Holland, Janet, Lahelma, Elina & Tolonen, Tarja (2005)
Hidden from Gaze: Problematising Action in the Classroom, Qualitative
Research 5(1): 113-131. (a methodological article with focus on
ethnographer's gaze)
Lahelma, Elina (2002) School is for meeting friends: secondary school as
lived and remembered, British Journal of Sociology of Education, Vol.
23, No 3, 367-381 (this is an example of using multiple sets of data in
ethnographic analysis)
Literature on Social Capital (Jon’s lecture)
Coleman, James S. (1988): Social Capital in the Creation of Human
Capital. American Journal of Sociology 94 (Supplement): S95-S120.
Field, John (2003): Social Capital. London: Routledge (esp chapter
1-2, pp 11-70).
Portes, Alejandro (1998): Social Capital: Its Origins and Applications
in Modern Sociology. Annual Review of Sociology 24: 1-24.
Lauglo, Jon (2000): Social Capital Trumping Class and Cultural
Capital? Engagement with School Among Immigrant Youth. In Stephen Baron,
John Field, and Tom Schuller (Eds.) Social Capital: Critical
Perspectives. London: Oxford University Press.
Lauglo, Jon (2010) Unge fra innvandrerfamilier og sosial kapital for
utdanning. Oslo: Norges forskningsråd: Program for for
Internasjonal migrasjon og etniske relasjoner—IMER.
Woolcock, Michael (1998): Social capital and economic development:
Toward a theoretical synthesis and policy framework. Theory and Society
27: 151-208. (the older one's are also useful)
Literature on Cultural Capital (the lectures of Donald and Diane)
Bourdieu, Pierre (1989): La noblesse d'État. Grandes écoles et esprit
de corps, Minuit, Paris, 569 pages, ISBN 2-7073-1278-9. (Eng translation
The State Nobility. Elite Schools in the Field of Power, Stanford
University Press, Stanford 1996, 475 s., ISBN 0-8047-1778-8.)
Broady,
Donald: Kapitalbegreppet som utbildningssociologiskt verktyg,
Skeptronhäften 15. Uppsala: SEC, Uppsala universitet, 26 p. [Also in
Danish: "Kapitalbegrebet som uddannelsessociologisk værktøj", pp.
415-452 in Jens Bjerg (ed.): Pædagogik — en grundbog til et fag.
København: Hans Reitzels Forlag, 1998. Swedish translation, Liber
Förlag, 2000.] Accessible in swedish
www.skeptron.uu.se/broady/sec/ske-15.pdf
Reay, Diane, Gill Crozier & John Clayton (2009)‘Strangers in Paradise’?
Working-class Students in Elite Universities. Sociology 43(6): 1103–1121
Reay, Diane (2009) Identity Making in Schools and Classrooms in THE SAGE
HANDBOOK OF IDENTITIES
Reay, Diane (2010) „From the theory of practice to the practice of
theory. Working with Bourdieu in research in higher education choice“ in
Cultural Analysis.
Literature for Katrin Hjort‘s lecture
Hjort, Karin (200X) NON SENSE?: A discourse analysis of the Danish Upper
Secondary School Reform 2005.
Hjort, Karin (2009). Competence development in the Public Sector:
Development, or Dismantling of Professionalism? Illeris (ed.)
International
Perspectives on Competence Development – Developing Skills and
Capabilities,
NY Routledge
Bernstein, Basil B. (2000). Official Knowledge and Pedagoic
Identities:The Politics of Recontextualisation. Chapter 4 from Pedagogy,
Symbolic Control and Identity. Theory, Research, Critique. Revised
edition. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Foucault, Michel (1980). The eye of power. Chapter 8 from
Power/Knowledge Selected Interviews and Other Writings 1972-1977.
Longman. London.
Literature for Gestur‘s lecture
The Transformation of Cultural Capital - A Working Paper May 2010
Other useful literature for preparation
Lauder, Hugh; Phillip Brown; Jo-Anne Dillabough and A.H. Halsey
(Eds.)(2006) Education, Globalization and Social Change. Oxford
O.U. P.
Sayer, Andrew (2005) The moral significance of social class.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Skeggs, Beverley (2004) Class, Self, Culture London: Routledge
Lareau, Annette (2003) Unequal Childhoods: Class, race, and Family
Life. Berkeley and Los Angeles, California: University of California
Press.
Mirza, Heidi Safia (2006) „'Race', gender and educational desire“
Race Ethnicity and Education Vol. 9, No. 2, July 2006, pp. 137–158
Davies, Bronwyn (2006). Subjectification: the relevance of Butler’s
analysis for education. British Journal of Sociology of Education.
Special issue. Troubling identities: reflections on Judith Butler’s work
for the Sociology of Education, 27(4), 425-438.
Lectures
Diane Reay, University of Cambridge and Donald Broady, University of
Uppsala: "Is the concept cultural capital still valid in the 21st
century?".
Jon Lauglo, University of Oslo, will lecture on the concept of social
capital as a means to direct attention to other aspects of ‚home
background‘ than social class and cultural capital.
Elina Lahelma, University of Helsinki, will lecture on ethnographic
research into citizenship and gender.
Gestur Gudmundsson, University of Iceland, will lecture on the social
exclusion from upper secondary education and employment that is taking
place in the current crisis.
Katrin Hjort, University of Southern Denmark, will lecture on the
vertical and horisontal perspectives of Foucault and Bernstein on
educational reforms.