Blue-Collar Scholars: Bridging Academic and Working-Class Worlds
This dissertation explores one white working-class family’s hopes, fears, illusions, and tensions related to social mobility. I tell stories from my experiences as a first-generation college student, including: ethnographic fieldwork; interviews with my family, community members, and former teachers...
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ndltd-USF-oai-scholarcommons.usf.edu-etd-74522017-09-27T05:33:05Z Blue-Collar Scholars: Bridging Academic and Working-Class Worlds Hodges, Nathan Lee This dissertation explores one white working-class family’s hopes, fears, illusions, and tensions related to social mobility. I tell stories from my experiences as a first-generation college student, including: ethnographic fieldwork; interviews with my family, community members, and former teachers; and narratives from other working-class academics to provide an in-depth, evocative, and relational look at mobility. I explore the roots of vulnerability in my family and how I was socialized into understanding belonging and worthiness in particular ways, and how this socialization influences my feelings of belonging and worthiness in the academy. The goal of this research is bridging – past and present selves, working-class and academic cultures, work and family – for me and my family and other first-generation students and their families. 2016-06-29T07:00:00Z text application/pdf http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/6256 http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=7452&context=etd default Graduate Theses and Dissertations Scholar Commons First-generation college students working class social class identity negotiation family research autoethnography Communication Other Education |
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This dissertation explores one white working-class family’s hopes, fears, illusions, and tensions related to social mobility. I tell stories from my experiences as a first-generation college student, including: ethnographic fieldwork; interviews with my family, community members, and former teachers; and narratives from other working-class academics to provide an in-depth, evocative, and relational look at mobility. I explore the roots of vulnerability in my family and how I was socialized into understanding belonging and worthiness in particular ways, and how this socialization influences my feelings of belonging and worthiness in the academy. The goal of this research is bridging – past and present selves, working-class and academic cultures, work and family – for me and my family and other first-generation students and their families. |
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Blue-Collar Scholars: Bridging Academic and Working-Class Worlds |
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