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Direct, indirect and relational: social class manifestations in teenage students’ accounts

This is an invited paper at the special issue of the Youth and Policy journal. This research employed in-depth interviews and socio-graphs with teenage students (n=75). This methodological approach is original as socio-graphs have not been previously used in relation to this type of research. This paper draws on Bourdieuian frameworks in order to examine the way students understand social class as a concept and make sense of it with regard to their own experiences. The employment of these theoretical frameworks is significant in that it allows for the multiplicity and complexity of class understandings to be exposed and analysed.