Identity is formed in schools - peer groups in school, teacher pupil interactions, acceptance or rejection of individuals' external identity - gendered expectations and behaviours- subject choice and career aspiration
Teachers' perceptions of pupils fall into three categories: Ideal pupil -female middle class high achiever, Pathologized pupil-Chinese and Indian males seen as unthreatening and asexual, Demonised pupil- overtly heterosexual white or black working class males
Formation of 'Nike identities' as a form of symbolic capital - status awarded for wearing branded sportswear, Clashes with school habitus - symbolic violence
Hyperhetrosexual identity for girls within makeup, hair, clothes gain status from peers and boys but not school