Socio-sartorial inscriptions of social class in a study of school and identity in Ireland. Issue 3 (4th May 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Cahill, Kevin
• Is Part Of: Discourse. Volume 40:Issue 3(2019)
• Page Start: 294
• Page End: 305
• Publication Date: 2019-05-04
• Subjects: Socio-sartorial inscriptions -- social class and education -- Irish education -- ethnography -- identity; Education -- Periodicals; Education -- Australia -- Periodicals; 370.5
• DOI: 10.1080/01596306.2017.1327422
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0159-6306

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This paper explores how classed identities are constituted through the socio-sartorial inscriptions of a working-class school and community in an Irish city in the twenty-first century. The data of the paper were generated through a wider three-year critical ethnography of a school community. The focus here is upon the identity work of the participants as it is connected to the school and the wider community. The article makes a particular contribution to the conversation of cultural constructions of class; in this instance through socio-sartorialism and how cultural capital is embodied and performed through people. The paper offers illustrative cases formed from participant interviews and an analysis of how socio-sartorial inscription contributes to the making of class in educational contexts.