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Paul Willis (born 1945) is a British social scientist known for his work in sociology and cultural studies. Paul Willis' work is widely read in the fields of sociology, anthropology, and education, his work emphasizing consumer culture, socialization, music, and popular culture.
Jan 25, 2016 · Willis observed and interviewed 12 working class white boys who resisted school and chose manual jobs in the 1970s. He applied a neo-marxist framework to explain how their counter-school culture reflected and reproduced class inequality.
Paul Willis is a cultural ethnographer who studies lived cultural forms in various contexts. He is a former youth policy adviser, co-founder of Ethnography journal, and board member of Youth Studies.
Apr 23, 2019 · Paul Willis was a Marxist sociologist who observed and interviewed a group of disruptive and misbehaving boys in a Midlands school. He found that they had an anti-school subculture and rejected the values of society and work, but still ended up doing working-class jobs.
Jun 19, 2018 · This article is an introduction to a Special Issue dedicated to Paul Willis’s classic Learning to Labour at its 40th anniversary, and beyond. His theoretically informed and theorizing ethnographic ...
- Mats Trondman, Anna Lund
- 2018
A classic study of how working-class students rebel against school and prepare for working-class jobs. Paul Willis, a professor of education, observes a group of lads in an English town and analyzes the role of culture and class in their resistance and reproduction.
This article is an introduction to a Special Issue dedicated to Paul Willis’s classic Learning to Labour at its 40th anniversary, and beyond. His theoretically informed and theorizing ethnographic study is read, explored, and utilized all around the globe.
