PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - WILLIS, PAUL
TI  - Foot Soldiers of Modernity: The Dialectics of Cultural Consumption and the 21st-Century School
AID  - 10.17763/haer.73.3.0w5086336u305184
DP  - 2003 Sep 01
TA  - Harvard Educational Review
PG  - 390--415
VI  - 73
IP  - 3
4099  - http://harvardeducationalreview.org/content/73/3/390.short
4100  - http://harvardeducationalreview.org/content/73/3/390.full
SO  - herp2003 Sep 01; 73
AB  - Drawing on more than twenty-five years of experience researching and theorizing about culture, youth, and society, Paul Willis presents a broad theoretical argument that positions the school as the site and instrument through which cultural responses to material conditions are played out. Willis distinguishes between three "waves of modernization" that stem from radical shifts in technological and material production and that are accompanied by specific cultural forms, particularly forms of youth culture. He argues that it is from these specific cultural forms that an effective struggle for social change can emerge.