Reflexivity of contemporary youth, risk and cultural capital

Title: Reflexivity of contemporary youth, risk and cultural capital
Creator: Threadgold, Steven; Nilan, Pam
Relation: Current Sociology Vol. 57, Issue 1, p. 47-68
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0011392108097452
Publisher: Sage Publications
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2009
Description: Using research examples, this article expands the theoretical premise that the 'new' reflexivity constitutes an element of cultural capital for contemporary youth. Employing the sociological ideas of cultural capital, habitus, reflexivity and risk, the authors propose that Beck's notion of 'risk' provides a useful way of understanding what drives the development of this reflexivity in the habitus of groups of young people, especially negotiation of risk. However, the emergence of this new reflexivity in youth habitus does not diminish the importance of socioeconomic class as some proponents of reflexive modernization claim. Quite the contrary. The capacity for reflexive negotiation of future risks, both real and perceived, has become another form of what Bourdieu calls embodied cultural capital - which remains inequitably distributed along class lines.
Subject: cultural capital; habitus; reflexive modernization; reflexivity; risk; youth
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/916933
Identifier: uon:8157
Identifier: ISSN:0011-3921
Language: eng
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