In this book, Mu crafts a sociology of resilience through his multi-year research with Australian students. The content is not merely concerned with individual achievements in precarious conditions but also ponders over transformative, reflexive, and power-rejective everyday practices that make social change possible, probable, and even inevitable.
Since Emmy Werner and her colleagues discovered the "self-righting" and "invincible" children on the Hawaiian island of Kauai who fared well despite exposure to significant household risks, positive psychology has markedly advanced the knowledge about child and youth resilience to adversities. Yet, many children and adolescents continue to slide through system cracks. This fact does not invalidate psychology of resilience; rather, it urges new frameworks to break the reproductive circle of inequality. Reframing the traditional psychological notion of resilience through recourse to Bourdieu’s relational and reflexive sociology, the book moves beyond individual adaptation to adverse conditions and takes a deep dive into sociological resilience to structural problems. It offers school professionals and educational researchers an epistemological tool to reapproach resilience and reappropriate Bourdieu for social change.
Offering scholarship that will interest researchers in the areas of child and youth resilience, sociology of resilience, and sociology of education, the volume is written to engage with the intellectual work of both established scholars and emerging researchers within Australia and beyond. The empirical analyses also provide useful insights for educational professionals in schools and resilience researchers in universities.
Author(s): Guanglun Michael Mu
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 218
City: London
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Chapter 1: Sketching a Sociological Analysis of Resilience
Race, Gender, and Class in Resilience Building
Student Resilience in OECD Countries and Multicultural Contexts
Problematising Multiculturalism
Sociological Implications for Resilience Building
Sketch of the Book
Notes
References
Chapter 2: Revisiting Child and Youth Resilience: Misconceptualisation, Conceptualisation, and Reconceptualisation
Resilience “diaspora” and Its Attendant Misconceptualisations
Conceptualising Resilience: Seminal Work and Paradigmatic Shift
Reconceptualising Resilience through Bourdieu’s Sociology
Notes
References
Chapter 3: Sociologising Child and Youth Resilience through Bourdieu’s Field Analysis
Habitus: The Structured and Structuring Structures
Capital: The Defining Power of Social Positioning
Field: The Social Space of Positions and Dispositions
Moving towards a Sociology of Resilience
Resilience, Culture, and Class: A Sociological Study of Australian Children
Notes
References
Chapter 4: Resilience for Self-Transformation: Resolution, Reconciliation, Recalcitrance, Retreat, and Redirection
Resolution
Reconciliation
Linguistic Enculturation
Academic Indoctrination
Habitus of Reconciliation: Self-Transformation and Self-Obscurantism
Recalcitrance
Resistance to Authority or Control
Revenge on Powerful Institutions and Awful Individuals
Retreat
Redirection
Resilience for Self-Transformation
Notes
References
Chapter 5: Beyond Self-Transformation: Reconstruction and Reflexivity as Two Further Puzzles of the Multi-Rs Resilience Model
Reconstruction of “failure”
Reflexivity
Reappraising Oneself
Relating Oneself
Referring Others Back to Themselves
Reviewing Different Sides of a Matter
Multi-Rs Sociological Model of Resilience
Notes
References
Chapter 6: Revisiting the Multi-Rs Resilience Model: Exploratory Quantitative Analyses of Classifications and Relations
Measurement of Strategies of Resilience and Dynamics of Children’s Lifeworlds
Calibrating and Validating the Multi-Rs Resilience Scale: Confirmatory Factor Analysis
Exploring the Sociological Patterns of Resilience: Multiple Correspondence Analysis
Further Exploration of the Sociological Patterns of Resilience: Cluster Analysis
Sociological Patterns of Resilience
Recalcitrance as Resilience: Self-Emancipation and Self-Exclusion
References
Chapter 7: Concluding Remarks and Future Directions: Sociological and Biosociological Approaches to Resilience
Educational Change and Resilience
Resilience Paradox: A Concerning Future
Reflexivity Revisited
Resilience as an Anthropological Construct
Genetic Research of Resilience
Epigenetic Research of Resilience
A Proposal for Biosociological Research of Child and Youth Resilience
A Final Remark on Sociology of Resilience
Notes
References
Index
