Publications

Publication details [#26962]

Rymes, Betsy. 1995. The construction of moral agency in the narratives of high-school drop-outs. Discourse & Society 6 (4) : 495–516.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

agency | discourse analysis | identity negotiation | narrative | school

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

ISBN

0957-9265

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This discourse and ethnographic analysis explores how high-school drop-outs realize a sense of self and (moral) agency, related to shared peer group particulars.