PulseExploreJournal ClubDebatesTrendingResearchersJournals
Instagram
HomeExploreJournal ClubTrending
Synapse
⌘+K
Synapse
July 1, 1996Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews5,768 citations

Learning to Labor: How Working Class Kids Get Working Class Jobs.

View Full Paper
JHJohn C HaganPWPaul Willis

Key Points

  • The study aims to understand how working-class culture impacts job acquisition among youth.
  • Conducted ethnographic research to investigate elements of working-class culture
  • Analyzed the relationship between labor power, ideology, and social institutions
  • Examined cultural forms and their role in shaping job outcomes
  • Identified key cultural elements that influence access to working-class jobs
  • Revealed the limitations imposed by ideology on social mobility
  • Outlined the connection between cultural forms and labor market outcomes

Abstract

Contents: Key to transcripts Introduction. Part I Ethnography: Elements of a culture Class and institutional form of a culture Labour power, culture, class and institution. Part II Analysis: Penetrations Limitations The role of ideology Notes towards a theory of cultural forms and social reproduction Monday morning and the millennium. Index.

Ask AI
Helpful
Bookmark
Share
View Full Paper

Cite This Study

Hagan et al. (1996) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a0993c341a1eeaa06459c94https://doi.org/10.2307/2077050
Ask AI
Helpful
Bookmark
Share
View Full Paper

Also Consider

Synapse has enriched 5 closely related papers on similar clinical questions. Consider them for comparative context:

  1. 1CLASS AND CLASS CONSCIOUSNESS ACCORDING TO E. P. THOMPSON2024
  2. 2Contested capital: Class and the sociology of work2026
  3. 3The culture of child labor as a current expression of neo-colonialism2024
  4. 4Journal of Class and Culture Second Annual Conference, Liverpool John Moores University, 12 October 20242025
  5. 5Working-class intellectuals: Challenging the dominant political and economic consensus2025