Gendered socializations and critical reflexivity in an Elite University in Lebanon

Nimer M.

GENDER AND EDUCATION, cilt.32, sa.4, ss.537-553, 2020 (SSCI) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 32 Sayı: 4
  • Basım Tarihi: 2020
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1080/09540253.2018.1501005
  • Dergi Adı: GENDER AND EDUCATION
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus, Academic Search Premier, ASSIA, IBZ Online, International Bibliography of Social Sciences, EBSCO Education Source, Education Abstracts, Educational research abstracts (ERA), ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Gender Studies Database, Public Affairs Index, Social services abstracts, Sociological abstracts
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.537-553
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Gender inequality, higher education, family practices, habitus, dispositions, critical reflexivity, EDUCATION, HABITUS, BOURDIEU, REPRESENTATIONS, EXPERIENCE, TEXTBOOKS, CONTEXT, IRAN
  • İstanbul Üniversitesi Adresli: Hayır

Özet

Gender inequality in education has been well documented in the literature, in light of family and school socialization. We build on this literature and focus from a micro sociological perspective on the emergence of 'critical reflexivity' in the specific case of a group of university scholarship students in Lebanon. Through observations and in-depth interviews, we identify gender differentiated prior dispositions that influence university experiences of those students and their career plans and demonstrate that critical reflexivity involves a process of negotiation between two fields. Family control was associated with success in studies at the expense of the social aspects of university. Gendered norms also reflected on their choices of major. Furthermore, in examining cases of emergence of reflexivity, we find that prior socialization experiences, namely degree of social conservatism, experience of change as well as social heterogeneity, influence the development of 'critical reflexivity' as students encountered a new social environment.