Symbolic Violence, Social Control, and Student Loan Programmes: The Subterranean Complexes
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| Title: | Symbolic Violence, Social Control, and Student Loan Programmes: The Subterranean Complexes |
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| Language: | English |
| Authors: | Hanwen Zhang (ORCID |
| Source: | Higher Education Research and Development. 2024 43(8):1908-1916. |
| Availability: | Routledge. Available from: Taylor & Francis, Ltd. 530 Walnut Street Suite 850, Philadelphia, PA 19106. Tel: 800-354-1420; Tel: 215-625-8900; Fax: 215-207-0050; Web site: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals |
| Peer Reviewed: | Y |
| Page Count: | 9 |
| Publication Date: | 2024 |
| Document Type: | Journal Articles Reports - Descriptive |
| Education Level: | Higher Education Postsecondary Education |
| Descriptors: | Neoliberalism, Debt (Financial), Loan Repayment, Loan Default, Paying for College, Student Financial Aid, Student Loan Programs, Social Control, Equal Education, Income Contingent Loans, Trust (Psychology), Student Responsibility, Federal Aid, Self Concept |
| DOI: | 10.1080/07294360.2024.2374541 |
| ISSN: | 0729-4360 1469-8366 |
| Abstract: | Government-backed student loans are not a panacea for educational inequality or social ills. By examining student loans as a means of social control, Bourdieu's concept of symbolic violence can provide novel ways to encapsulate debt-response patterns across cultures and geographies. This gentle, invisible violence creeps in via misrecognition, a process that encompasses rationalising indebtedness and attaching latent meaning or emotional weight to student debt. Student debt is, first, internalised as a regular and reliable part of life, whether through income-contingent repayment or traditional mortgage-style programmes. Also present is the gradual internalisation of gratitude, trust, and obligation. Deferment or delinquency is subsequently interpreted as a sign of personal inadequacy. In essence, symbolic violence establishes a missing link between an individual's subjective experience and institutional structural barriers. It disrupts commonly held assumptions on marketisation, private return, and individual responsibility in top-down neo-liberal discourse, informing student loan policy through a multidimensional lens. |
| Abstractor: | As Provided |
| Entry Date: | 2025 |
| Accession Number: | EJ1456807 |
| Database: | ERIC |
| Abstract: | Government-backed student loans are not a panacea for educational inequality or social ills. By examining student loans as a means of social control, Bourdieu's concept of symbolic violence can provide novel ways to encapsulate debt-response patterns across cultures and geographies. This gentle, invisible violence creeps in via misrecognition, a process that encompasses rationalising indebtedness and attaching latent meaning or emotional weight to student debt. Student debt is, first, internalised as a regular and reliable part of life, whether through income-contingent repayment or traditional mortgage-style programmes. Also present is the gradual internalisation of gratitude, trust, and obligation. Deferment or delinquency is subsequently interpreted as a sign of personal inadequacy. In essence, symbolic violence establishes a missing link between an individual's subjective experience and institutional structural barriers. It disrupts commonly held assumptions on marketisation, private return, and individual responsibility in top-down neo-liberal discourse, informing student loan policy through a multidimensional lens. |
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| ISSN: | 0729-4360 1469-8366 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/07294360.2024.2374541 |
