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The Role of Celebrity in Young People's Classed and Gendered Aspirations

名人在年轻人的阶级和性别愿望中的作用

基本信息

批准号：
ES/J022942/1
负责人：
Heather Mendick
金额：
$ 21.64万
依托单位：
Brunel University London
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2012
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2012 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FJ022942%2F1
关键词：
Role Celebrity Young People Classed

项目摘要

There are growing concerns in the UK that celebrity is impacting negatively on young people's aspirations. Politicians and teacher unions have spoken out on the 'dangerous effects' of celebrity, expressing fears that young people just want fame (as footballers' wives or Reality TV stars) rather than achievement based on hard work and skill. This study builds on recent research suggesting that celebrity informs young people's educational and career aspirations in complex ways. It will explore how accounts of aspiration within celebrity (e.g. stories of success, talent and self-realisation) shape young people's imagined futures.The research questions are:- What discourses (powerful and conflicting social stories) of aspiration circulate in celebrity representations?- How do young people take-up these discourses in talking about their own aspirations?- How do discourses of aspiration in celebrity and young people's take-up of these relate to social class and gender?We will focus on social class and gender because a large body of research shows that these are central to young people's educational and career aspirations and choices.This youth-centred study will combine individual and group interviews with online forums and celebrity case studies. We will work with 144 young people in six English comprehensive schools that cater for students from a range of class and ethnic backgrounds (two schools in each of: London, a rural area in Southern England and a city in Northern England). At the start of the school year, we will access 24 participants per school, half in Year 10 (aged 14-15) and half in Year 12 (aged 16-17). Just prior to Years 10 and 12 students make key option choices about their futures (pre- and post-GCSE), and these age groups are highly engaged with celebrity as well as being the focus of public debates on celebrity. We will conduct four group interviews in each school with six participants in each. These will explore how young people talk about their own and other people's aspirations and how celebrity features in their life. We will return at the end of the school year to conduct individual interviews with 48 selected participants (eight per school). These interviews will look closely at how individual students' educational and career aspirations relate to celebrity and to their social class and gender.Between school visits, we will invite participants to join an online forum (one per school). We will use these to generate topical discussions about celebrity and aspiration, e.g. asking who should win X Factor and why. We hope participants will also initiate discussions. During this time we will also conduct case studies of 12 celebrities, including those who generate positive and negative reactions from participants. We will select men and women from a range of class backgrounds and fields (e.g. sport, music, Reality TV). We will analyse discourses of aspiration in each celebrity's coverage in three media outlets over six months and selected other material (e.g. Twitter feed, autobiographies).This will be the first UK-based empirical study to examine celebrity's significance in the construction of young people's aspirations. It will have theoretical significance for scholars in education, sociology and media and cultural studies. It will have practical significance for the new Careers Education, Information, Advice and Guidance services, policymakers concerned with young people's aspirations, media educators and youth media commissioners. We will engage users through: conference presentations, academic and practitioner journal articles, an accessible project website and social networking strategy, an advisory group of representatives from key fields, communication events, a practical Toolkit for careers advisors and educators, active engagement with the media including via a press release, and Research Briefings summarising the findings and their implications for policymakers.

在英国，人们越来越担心名人对年轻人的抱负产生负面影响。政治家和教师工会已经公开谈论名人的“危险影响”，他们担心年轻人只是想要名声（作为足球运动员的妻子或真人秀明星），而不是基于努力工作和技能的成就。这项研究建立在最近的研究基础上，表明名人以复杂的方式告知年轻人的教育和职业抱负。它将探讨名人对抱负的描述（例如成功、天赋和自我实现的故事）如何塑造年轻人想象中的未来。研究问题是：-在名人的表征中，什么样的抱负话语（强大而矛盾的社会故事）在流传？年轻人在谈论自己的抱负时如何接受这些话语？名人的抱负话语和年轻人对这些话语的接受与社会阶层和性别有什么关系？我们将重点关注社会阶层和性别，因为大量研究表明，这些是年轻人的教育和职业抱负和选择的核心。这项以青年为中心的研究将结合联合收割机个人和团体访谈、在线论坛和名人案例研究。我们将与六所英语综合学校的144名年轻人合作，这些学校为来自不同阶级和种族背景的学生提供服务（伦敦、英格兰南部农村地区和英格兰北方城市各两所学校）。在学年开始时，我们将访问每所学校24名参与者，一半在10年级（14-15岁），一半在12年级（16-17岁）。就在10年级和12年级之前，学生们对他们的未来（GCSE之前和之后）做出了关键的选择，这些年龄段的人都非常关注名人，也是公众辩论的焦点。我们将在每所学校进行四次小组面试，每校六人。这些将探讨年轻人如何谈论自己和他人的愿望，以及名人如何在他们的生活中发挥作用。我们将在学年结束时返回与48名选定的参与者（每所学校8名）进行个别访谈。这些访谈将密切关注个别学生的教育和职业抱负与名人以及他们的社会阶层和性别的关系。在学校访问期间，我们将邀请参与者参加在线论坛（每所学校一个）。我们将使用这些来生成关于名人和抱负的话题讨论，例如询问谁应该赢得X Factor以及为什么。我们希望与会者也将展开讨论。在此期间，我们还将对12位名人进行案例研究，包括那些引起参与者积极和消极反应的人。我们将从一系列的阶级背景和领域（如体育，音乐，真人秀电视）选择男性和女性。我们将分析每个名人在六个月内在三个媒体上的报道中的抱负话语，并选择其他材料（例如Twitter Feed，自传）。这将是第一个以英国为基础的实证研究，以探讨名人在年轻人抱负建设中的重要性。这对教育学、社会学、传媒学和文化学的学者都有一定的理论意义。它将对新的职业教育、信息、咨询和指导服务、关心年轻人愿望的政策制定者、媒体教育工作者和青年媒体专员具有实际意义。我们将通过以下方式吸引用户：会议报告、学术和从业者期刊文章、可访问的项目网站和社交网络战略、来自关键领域的代表组成的咨询小组、交流活动、职业顾问和教育工作者实用工具包、通过新闻稿等方式与媒体积极接触，以及总结研究结果及其对政策制定者的影响的研究简报。