Sociologising Child and Youth Resilience with Bourdieu : An Australian Perspective

"In this book, Mu crafts a sociology of resilience through his multi-year research with Australian students. The content is not merely concerned with individual achievements in precarious conditions but also ponders over transformative, reflexive, and power-rejective everyday practices that make social change possible, probable, and even inevitable. Since Emmy Werner and her colleagues discovered the "self-righting" and "invincible" children on the Hawaiian island of Kauai who fared well despite exposure to significant household risks, positive psychology has markedly advanced the knowledge about child and youth resilience to adversities. Yet, many children and adolescents continue to slide through system cracks. This fact does not invalidate psychology of resilience; rather, it urges new frameworks to break the reproductive circle of inequality. Reframing the traditional psychological notion of resilience through recourse to Bourdieu's relational and reflexive sociology, the book moves beyond individual adaptation to adverse conditions and takes a deep dive into sociological resilience to structural problems. It offers school professionals and educational researchers an epistemological tool to reapproach resilience and reappropriate Bourdieu for social change. Offering scholarship that will interest researchers in the areas of child and youth resilience, sociology of resilience, and sociology of education, the volume is written to engage with the intellectual work of both established scholars and emerging researchers within Australia and beyond. The empirical analyses also provide useful insights for educational professionals in schools and resilience researchers in universities"-- Provided by publisher In this book, Mu crafts a sociology of resilience through his multi-year research with Australian students. Reframing resilience via Bourdieu’s relational and reflexive sociology, the book offers school professionals and educational researchers an epistemological tool to reapproach resilience and reappropriate Bourdieu for social change. Cover 1 Half Title 2 Title Page 4 Copyright Page 5 Table of Contents 6 List of Illustrations 7 Chapter 1: Sketching a Sociological Analysis of Resilience 8 Race, Gender, and Class in Resilience Building 12 Student Resilience in OECD Countries and Multicultural Contexts 17 Problematising Multiculturalism 21 Sociological Implications for Resilience Building 28 Sketch of the Book 30 Notes 33 References 34 Chapter 2: Revisiting Child and Youth Resilience: Misconceptualisation, Conceptualisation, and Reconceptualisation 42 Resilience “diaspora” and Its Attendant Misconceptualisations 43 Conceptualising Resilience: Seminal Work and Paradigmatic Shift 50 Reconceptualising Resilience through Bourdieu’s Sociology 55 Notes 62 References 62 Chapter 3: Sociologising Child and Youth Resilience through Bourdieu’s Field Analysis 71 Habitus: The Structured and Structuring Structures 72 Capital: The Defining Power of Social Positioning 78 Field: The Social Space of Positions and Dispositions 86 Moving towards a Sociology of Resilience 89 Resilience, Culture, and Class: A Sociological Study of Australian Children 94 Notes 103 References 104 Chapter 4: Resilience for Self-Transformation: Resolution, Reconciliation, Recalcitrance, Retreat, and Redirection 112 Resolution 113 Reconciliation 115 Linguistic Enculturation 116 Academic Indoctrination 122 Habitus of Reconciliation: Self-Transformation and Self-Obscurantism 125 Recalcitrance 127 Resistance to Authority or Control 128 Revenge on Powerful Institutions and Awful Individuals 130 Retreat 132 Redirection 142 Resilience for Self-Transformation 145 Notes 145 References 146 Chapter 5: Beyond Self-Transformation: Reconstruction and Reflexivity as Two Further Puzzles of the Multi-Rs Resilience Model 151 Reconstruction of “failure” 151 Reflexivity 154 Reappraising Oneself 155 Relating Oneself 157 Referring Others Back to Themselves 160 Reviewing Different Sides of a Matter 161 Multi-Rs Sociological Model of Resilience 163 Notes 168 References 168 Chapter 6: Revisiting the Multi-Rs Resilience Model: Exploratory Quantitative Analyses of Classifications and Relations 171 Measurement of Strategies of Resilience and Dynamics of Children’s Lifeworlds 173 Calibrating and Validating the Multi-Rs Resilience Scale: Confirmatory Factor Analysis 174 Exploring the Sociological Patterns of Resilience: Multiple Correspondence Analysis 177 Further Exploration of the Sociological Patterns of Resilience: Cluster Analysis 185 Sociological Patterns of Resilience 187 Recalcitrance as Resilience: Self-Emancipation and Self-Exclusion 188 References 191 Chapter 7: Concluding Remarks and Future Directions: Sociological and Biosociological Approaches to Resilience 194 Educational Change and Resilience 195 Resilience Paradox: A Concerning Future 198 Reflexivity Revisited 199 Resilience as an Anthropological Construct 203 Genetic Research of Resilience 204 Epigenetic Research of Resilience 207 A Proposal for Biosociological Research of Child and Youth Resilience 208 A Final Remark on Sociology of Resilience 212 Notes 212 References 213 Index 219 Pierre,Bourdieu;,reflexivity;,correspondence,analysis;,social,change;,sociology,of,resilience;,child,and,youth,resilience Pierre Bourdieu,reflexivity,correspondence analysis,social change,sociology of resilience,child and youth resilience