working class identity and educational success

• Ingram (2009) found that having a w/c identity was inseperable from belonging to a w/c locality. the nighbourhood's dense network of family and friends were a key part of the boy's habitus. It gave them an intnse feeling of belonging
• w/c communities place a greater emphasis on conformity
• the boy's experienced a great pressure to fit in which was a particular problem for grammar school boys who experienced a tension between the habitus of the w/c neighbourhood and their m/c habitus school
• Eg) Callum was ridiculed by his classmates for coming to school in a tracksuit on non- school uniform day. Ingram states that the choice between unworthiness at school for wearing certain clothes and worthlessness at home for not.
• Callum experienced symbolic violence
• Ingram studied two groups of w/c catholic boys from a highly depreived neighbourhood in belfast. One group passed their 11+ exam and went to grammar school and one group failed and went to a local secondary school