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Key terms:

meritocracy

doxa

fields

identity

subjectivity

dispositions

reflexivity

precarity

Post-Fordism

self-realisation

inequalities

humanist-culturalist

materialist-capitalist

socialization

cultivation of self

neoliberal

1) Do you think student and (young) worker identities are:

a)   given or produced?

b)   single or collective?

How so? Can you point to passages in provide anecdotal examples from your own observations and experiences to support your view?

2)Farrugia discusses the “cultivation of the self” as important to young people looking forward to their adult working lives. What does this sociologist discover about this concept through his research? Does any of this chime with how you and your family have talked about the value of jobs and careers (i.e., what you should pursue and why)?

3) Do you think the disposition of seeing “passion” as important to one’s working life is a privileged or class-specific position to have or one everyone can or should aspire to?

What does the Farrugia reading make of this idea.

 

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I think students' and young workers' identities are produced and single. The identities of students and young workers are single or individualized since every individual conforms to certain dispositions. These dispositions are upheld by subjectivity and high levels of reflexivity; hence one's identity cannot be considered collective. For instance, we all had different identities in high school, although we were in the same class. Therefore, from my perspective, although people may be in the same field or environment, how we identify differs based on disposition and subjectivity.

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