Paul E. Willis

Author of Learning to Labor: How Working Class Kids Get Working Class Jobs

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About the Author

Paul E. Willis, an ethnographer and cultural theorist, is a lecturer with the rank of professor in the Department of Sociology at Princeton University. He is a founding editor and current joint editor of the journal Ethnography and the author of Learning to Labor: How Working Class Kids Get Working show more Class Jobs, among other books. show less

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Works by Paul E. Willis

Profane culture (1978) 17 copies

The Ethnographic Imagination (2000) 16 copies

Common Culture: Symbolic Work at Play in the Everyday Cultures of the Young (1990) 13 copies

Being modern in China : a Western cultural analysis of modernity, tradition and schooling in China today (2019) 1 copy

Symbolism and Practice: Theory for the Social Meaning of Pop Music 1 copy

Moving Culture: An Enquiry into the Cultural Activities of Young People (1990) 1 copy

A skacok. Iskolai ellenkultúra, munkáskultúra (2000) 1 copy

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Feminism and Masculinities (2004) — Contributor — 10 copies

Keskustelua laadullisesta sosiaalitutkimuksesta (1984) 1 copy

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