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Ego, balance and sophistication: experiences of schooling as self-making strategies in middle-class Kochi

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posted on 2023-06-08, 22:33 authored by David Sancho
This article examines the relationship between private schooling and the middle classes in urban India. It complicates the argument that private schools have become spaces in which young people come to see themselves less as representatives of one ethnic or caste community and more as indices of their own family’s economic standing and as members of a class group. I argue that a closer look at the way in which students experience and narrativise private schooling reveals a much less straightforward process. Schools, I argue, are mobilised by youth as flexible tools in complex and competing strategies to construct a middle social space for themselves. The article seeks to address a dearth of research on the complex and severely contested processes of transformation of the self implicated in strategies towards urban educational opportunities.

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Publication status

  • Published

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  • Published version

Journal

Contributions to Indian Sociology

ISSN

0069-9667

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Issue

1

Volume

49

Page range

1-26

Department affiliated with

  • Anthropology Publications

Full text available

  • No

Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2015-09-16

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2015-09-16

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