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Wednesday 15 April 2015 16:00 - 17:30
PAPER SESSION 3
relatively unfamiliar area deserving of a deeper exploration in the post 9/11 context due to the increasingly 'precarious'
status of Muslim citizenship in the wake of the 'War on Terror', which has rendered participation in mainstream politics
more challenging. My thesis argues that these cultural politics constitute a British Muslim social movement engaged in
defending stigmatised identities and promoting the politics of difference by resisting two dominant forms of power in
contemporary society. Firstly these politics address the multiple technologies of power articulated by Foucault's
concept of 'governmentality', which are hard to determine and fix due to their imperceptible and socially dispersed
nature. Secondly, cultural politics is necessitated by direct threats of force that Foucault described as a 'state of
violence' and which are discernible in the rise of the securitisation of Islam and citizenship in general in the wake of
9/11. The nature of resistance from Muslim activists suggests that their cultural politics are not only a strategic but also
a less risky political response to both these dominant modes of power.
Constructing an Analytical Framework for the Sociological Study of Respect: Some Lessons from the Chilean
Case
Orchard, M.
(University of Nottingham)
This paper proposes an analytical framework for the sociological study of respect. Its starting point is that respect is a
crucial issue in contemporary society which has still not received enough systematic attention in sociological research.
The paper identifies several gaps in the current literature on respect, regarding the conceptualization of the
phenomenon, and also regarding its relationship to inequality. The paper argues that these gaps are based on some
confusion between the theoretical, normative and empirical dimensions of the topic. However, there are some
theoretical tools already available in the sociological literature which are useful to clarify these gaps, such as the
concept of relative deprivation, and the reflection on value and self-worth which has been developed in the cultural
analysis of class identity. Thus, the paper puts forward an analytical framework for the study on respect drawing on
those concepts. Also, in order to show the performance of this approach, the paper presents an analysis of data from
the 'Missing Dimensions of Poverty Survey in Chile' (2009), carried out under the assumptions of the proposed
analytical framework.
Sociology of Education 1
M137, GEORGE MOORE BUILDING
INEQUALITY IN HIGHER EDUCATION: UNIVERSITY ADMISSIONS, THE STUDENT EXPERIENCE, AND
GRADUATE TRANSITIONS
Drawing on a number of contemporary research projects this symposium considers a range of aspects of inequality in
the UK’s Higher Education system. Our research encompasses the student life-cycle, from issues of unfair access to
issues of unequal student experience, and from inequalities in postgraduate study to disparate graduate employment
outcomes. We highlight continued forms of injustice in terms of class, gender, ‘race’, ethnicity, and parenting, and
demonstrate the need to redouble efforts in widening participation and student outcomes at the level of both
institutional practice and national policy.
• Making the Right Choice: the impact of A-level subject choices on the chances of getting into a Russell Group
university
• Negotiating higher education as a ‘student-parent’: the impact of state policy and gender norms
• Is postgraduate study the ‘new frontier of social mobility’? Evidence from a multi-institutional study of taught
postgraduates
• “It just reeked of masculinity in there”: Shaping Elite Men through University Experiences and Employment
Transitions
Shaping Elite Men through University Experiences and Employment Transitions
Ingram, N., Waller, R.
(University of Bath)
This paper considers the educational trajectories and employment strategies of a cohort of working-class and middleclass
male graduates attempting to make their way in elite financial and law sectors in the city of London. It traces
their pathways through the three years of their undergraduate degrees and their experiences of transition in the first
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