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Author Mendick, Heather, author

Title Celebrity, aspiration and contemporary youth : education and inequality in an era of austerity / Heather Mendick, Kim Allen, Laura Harvey and Aisha Ahmad
Published London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2018
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Description 1 online resource (viii, 201 pages)
Contents Youth -- Work -- Authenticity -- Success -- Happiness -- Money -- Fame
Summary "Celebrity, Aspiration and Contemporary Youth uses the lens of celebrity to explore how young people think about their futures under austerity. Based on an interdisciplinary study, the book offers fresh insights into contemporary youth aspirations and inequalities. It helps us to understand young people's transitions into adulthood at a time of socio-economic 'crisis'. Drawing on original data, the authors examine what it means for young people to be forming their aspirations within the context of 'austere meritocracy'. The book addresses three central questions: What kinds of futures do young people desire and imagine for themselves? What is required of young people in the process of achieving these futures? And how are inequalities embedded and reproduced within these? Using young people's 'celebrity talk' to explore their aspirations, the authors challenge stereotypes of young people as a fame-hungry, get-rich-quick generation. Instead, they show how young people engage critically with celebrity and its discourses. Key chapters focus on how young people talk about youth, work, authenticity, success, happiness, money and fame in relation to their own lives and those of celebrities. Each of these chapters contains a case study of an international celebrity, including, Beyoncé, Will Smith, Bill Gates, Prince Harry and Kim Kardashian. The authors conclude with possibilities for social change. They show that celebrity offers an important way of working with young people to critically explore what futures are possible and for whom"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 10, 2018)
Subject Youth -- Great Britain -- Social conditions
Youth -- Great Britain -- Economic conditions
Celebrities -- Social conditions
Level of aspiration.
Sociology.
Inclusive education -- mainstreaming.
Moral & social purpose of education.
EDUCATION -- Higher.
Youth -- Economic conditions
Level of aspiration
Educational equalization
Student aspirations
Youth -- Social conditions
Great Britain
Form Electronic book
Author Allen, Kim M., author
Harvey, Laura (Sociologist), author.
Ahmad, Aisha, author
LC no. 2018029274
ISBN 9781474294218
1474294219