This book provides an in-depth sociological study exploring the subjectivities within the neoliberal ideology of the school environment of white working-class boys in order to expand our understanding of white working-class disengagement with education.

Garth Stahl is Lecturer in Literacy Education and Sociology in the School of Education, University of South Australia, Australia.

Introduction Part 1 1. Working-class Student Educational Experience: An Amalgamation of Factors 2. Establishing a Framework to Explore Identity 3. Egalitarianism in the Habitus Part 2 4. Defining Class and Social Class Identitification 5. Social Class Influence and Educational Engagement 6. Narratives in Reconstituting, Reaffirming And The Self: 'Othering' the Non-Normative 7. Aspirations, Myths, Ambivalence and Reality 8. Conclusions and Recommendations Appendices