Iqbal, H., Neal, S. and Vincent, C. (2017) Childrens friendships in super-diverse localities: Encounters with social and ethnic difference. Childhood, 24 (1). pp. 128-142. ISSN 0907-5682
Abstract
This article explores how children make, manage, or avoid friendships in super-diverse primary school settings. We draw on interviews and pictorial data from 78 children, aged 8–9 years across three local London primary schools to identify particular friendship groupings and the extent to which they followed existing patterns of social division. Children in the study did recognise social and cultural differences, but their friendship perceptions, affections, conflicts and practices meant that the way in which difference impacted relationships was partial and unstable. Friendship practices in the routine settings of school involved interactions across difference, but also entrenchments around similarity.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2016 The Author(s). This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Keywords: | Ethnicity; friendship; identifications; social class; superdiversity |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Department of Sociological Studies (Sheffield) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number Economic and Social Research Council ES/K002384/1 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 22 Feb 2017 12:13 |
Last Modified: | 22 Feb 2017 12:13 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1177/0907568216633741 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Sage Publications |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/0907568216633741 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:111353 |