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Symbolic Boundary Work in Schools: Demarcating and Denying Ethnic Boundaries
Author(s) -
TabibCalif Yosepha,
LomskyFeder Edna
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
anthropology and education quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.531
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1548-1492
pISSN - 0161-7761
DOI - 10.1111/aeq.12045
Subject(s) - ethnic group , boundary work , ethnography , sociology , boundary (topology) , work (physics) , gender studies , population , educational anthropology , the symbolic , class (philosophy) , social science , epistemology , anthropology , psychology , mechanical engineering , mathematical analysis , mathematics , engineering , philosophy , demography , psychoanalysis
This article examines the symbolic boundary work that is carried out at a school whose student population is heterogeneous in terms of ethnicity and class. Based on ethnography, the article demonstrates how the school's staff seeks to neutralize ethnic boundaries and their accompanying discourse, while the pupils try to bring ethnic boundaries back in and place the interethnic encounter prominently on the school's agenda.