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Author_Helene Snee
Average Socio-economic Background
Banal Cosmopolitanism
Blog Analysis
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Bourdieu's Conceptual Apparatus
capital
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Cosmopolitan Cultural Capital
Cosmopolitan Encounters
Cosmopolitan Journeys
cultural
cultural capital theory
Cultural Omnivore
educational transitions
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experience
gap
Gap Year
Globally Reflexive
Habitual Gapper
industry
Inter-cultural Learning
people
Proper Travel
qualitative travel research
Reflexive Cosmopolitanism
Reflexive Gapper
Reflexive Habitus
Reflexive Identity Work
Reflexive Modernisation Thesis
social class reproduction
Social Reproduction
sociological fieldwork
structural inequality in gap years
travel
Travel Blogs
Travel Buddies
volunteer
Volunteer Tourism
year
young
Young Man
youth mobility studies
Youth Travel
Product details
- ISBN 9781409453031
- Weight: 566g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 20 May 2014
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Does travel broaden the mind? This book explores this question through an innovative sociological study of gap year travel. Taking a year out overseas between school and university is an increasingly legitimate practice for young people in the UK. But what do young people get out of gap years? A wide range of 'official' sources acknowledge gap years as a way of becoming a global citizen and more employable at the same time. Instead of automatically assuming that gap years are a 'good thing', this book critically considers how this contemporary rite of passage could contribute to the reproduction of structural disadvantage at both a national and international level in relation to young people's routes into education and employment, and representations of difference and distinction in cultural practices. The key argument running throughout the book is that well-established ways of thinking about and understanding the world are used to frame gap year experiences, including how other people and places are different; the influence of class in determining what has cultural value; and what sort of identity work is worthwhile. Gap years are located at a point where a number of fields overlap: education, employment and the consumption of leisure travel. A Cosmopolitan Journey? will therefore be of interest to students, academics and practitioners in these areas.
Helene Snee, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.
