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G.02. Bourdieu and Beyond: Connecting Critical Theories to Rethink Educational Inequalities (2/2) Location: Aule di Botanica (CU028): Aula Blu5 Convenor(s): Flora Petrik (University of Tübingen, Germany); Aina Tarabini (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain) | |
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'I Need to Learn How to Talk': Sociolinguistic Reflections on Habitus and Doxa in First-generation University Students Narratives 1: Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca; 2: Marie Skłodowska Curie Individual Fellow, Eurac Research In this contribute we use Bourdieu as a bridge between the sociology of education and the linguistic anthropology of education to analyze the ways in which first-generation university students narrate their entry into and experience in the university field. By analyzing sociological interviews, course assignments and focus-groups with methodological lens from the language sciences (analysis of narrative), we ask: what becomes tellable about language, self-presentation and belonging when FGS recount their first steps into university? And how do those tellings reveal both symbolic exclusion and the micro-conversions through which students navigate ‘the game’ of university participation? The analysis outline how FGS, during the transition from school and family to university, recognize the university as a relatively distinct field and consequently adopt, embody, and enact a habitus which—given their social and schooling trajectories—enables them to take up positions within it. | |