Document Type

Review Article

Publication Date

12-1-2003

Abstract

Utilizing critical incidents primarily from a year-long ethnographic study of a single gender middle school, the authors attempt to capture the mechanisms of symbolic violence as described by Bourdieu and Passeron in Reproduction in Education, Society and Culture and by Bourdieu in latter publications. Our analysis suggests that problems of persistent social inequality, crime, and incarceration are linked to symbolic forms of violence that occur in schools and that current policies attempting to address these issues are flawed, based on a limited theorization of violence.

DOI

10.1080/1360312032000150779

Published Citation

Herr, K., & Anderson, G. (2003). Violent youth or violent schools? A critical incident analysis of symbolic violence. Int. J. Leadership in Education, 6(4), 415-433.

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