Sociologising Child and Youth Resilience with Bourdieu: An Australian Perspective

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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. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents List of Illustrations Chapter 1: Sketching a Sociological Analysis of Resilience Race, Gender, and Class in Resilience Building Student Resilience in OECD Countries and Multicultural Contexts Problematising Multiculturalism Sociological Implications for Resilience Building Sketch of the Book Notes References Chapter 2: Revisiting Child and Youth Resilience: Misconceptualisation, Conceptualisation, and Reconceptualisation Resilience “diaspora” and Its Attendant Misconceptualisations Conceptualising Resilience: Seminal Work and Paradigmatic Shift Reconceptualising Resilience through Bourdieu’s Sociology Notes References Chapter 3: Sociologising Child and Youth Resilience through Bourdieu’s Field Analysis Habitus: The Structured and Structuring Structures Capital: The Defining Power of Social Positioning Field: The Social Space of Positions and Dispositions Moving towards a Sociology of Resilience Resilience, Culture, and Class: A Sociological Study of Australian Children Notes References Chapter 4: Resilience for Self-Transformation: Resolution, Reconciliation, Recalcitrance, Retreat, and Redirection Resolution Reconciliation Linguistic Enculturation Academic Indoctrination Habitus of Reconciliation: Self-Transformation and Self-Obscurantism Recalcitrance Resistance to Authority or Control Revenge on Powerful Institutions and Awful Individuals Retreat Redirection Resilience for Self-Transformation Notes References Chapter 5: Beyond Self-Transformation: Reconstruction and Reflexivity as Two Further Puzzles of the Multi-Rs Resilience Model Reconstruction of “failure” Reflexivity Reappraising Oneself Relating Oneself Referring Others Back to Themselves Reviewing Different Sides of a Matter Multi-Rs Sociological Model of Resilience Notes References Chapter 6: Revisiting the Multi-Rs Resilience Model: Exploratory Quantitative Analyses of Classifications and Relations Measurement of Strategies of Resilience and Dynamics of Children’s Lifeworlds Calibrating and Validating the Multi-Rs Resilience Scale: Confirmatory Factor Analysis Exploring the Sociological Patterns of Resilience: Multiple Correspondence Analysis Further Exploration of the Sociological Patterns of Resilience: Cluster Analysis Sociological Patterns of Resilience Recalcitrance as Resilience: Self-Emancipation and Self-Exclusion References Chapter 7: Concluding Remarks and Future Directions: Sociological and Biosociological Approaches to Resilience Educational Change and Resilience Resilience Paradox: A Concerning Future Reflexivity Revisited Resilience as an Anthropological Construct Genetic Research of Resilience Epigenetic Research of Resilience A Proposal for Biosociological Research of Child and Youth Resilience A Final Remark on Sociology of Resilience Notes References Index