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YOUTH THEATRE AND THE ARTICULATION OF CULTURAL CAPITAL

Refocusing Bourdieu Through Ethnography

BARBARA ADKINS

MICHAEL EMMISON

This study of working-class and middle-class youth theatre workshops examines the processes through which this cultural form is appropriated by different class groups. Whereas the middle-class workshop proceeded efficiently and harmoniously, the working-class group resisted a number of institutional constraints traditionally associated with play rehearsal and performance. The processes of such symbolic struggle in the working-class group appeared to differ from Bourdieu's account of cultural domination. The article explores the explanatory contribution of the ethnographic case study to the analysis of the class basis of cultural tastes and practices and suggest that Bourdieu's account of class relations would gain from inclusion of this level of analysis. The situated study of the youth theatre workshops suggests that at this level, there is possibly more scope for symbolic struggle between the classes than was found by Bourdieu.

Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Vol. 21, No. 3, 307-342 (1992)
DOI: 10.1177/089124192021003002
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