Lapping, Claudia (2005) Antagonism and overdetermination: the production of student positions in contrasting undergraduate disciplines and institutions in the United Kingdom. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 26 (5). pp. 657-671. ISSN 0142-5692 (print); 1465-3346 (electronic)
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Abstract
Based on data drawn from an empirical research project in four UK universities, this article presents a picture of student positions in undergraduate classes as a product of the relationship between the discursive fields of discipline, institution and gender. It begins by providing a description of some contrasting features of academic disciplines, and then identifies ways in which these features conflict with features of other discursive fields, to marginalize specific students or groups of students. The article draws on the conceptual vocabulary of Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe to argue that where features of discursive fields overlap, social identities are overdetermined, while where features of discursive fields conflict, social identities are placed in an antagonistic and unstable relation to social and symbolic systems.
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| Additional Information: | This is an electronic version of an article published in Lapping, Claudia (2005) Antagonism and overdetermination: the production of student positions in contrasting undergraduate disciplines and institutions in the United Kingdom. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 26 (5). pp. 657-671. British Journal of Sociology of Education is available online at: http://www.informaworld.com/10.1080/01425690500293660 |
| Subjects: | Departments > Learning, Curriculum and Communication |
| Depositing User: | IOE Repository Editor (1) |
| Date Deposited: | 09 Feb 2010 11:00 |
| Last Modified: | 26 Jun 2012 22:25 |
| URI: | http://eprints.ioe.ac.uk/id/eprint/967 |
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