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First-Generation Etc: Agency, Inequality, Practice, Habitus, And Reflection, Jon Hunsberger
First-Generation Etc: Agency, Inequality, Practice, Habitus, And Reflection, Jon Hunsberger
Master’s Theses
This autoethnography explores the author’s first two years transitioning and acclimating to a selective college as a first-generation student from a working-class background who attended rural public schools. Grounding itself in post-structural theory, this thesis first explores how the author experienced upward social mobility in contrast with structuralist theories that suggest he would reproduce his social-class origins. Second this thesis concludes that the relative degree of legitimization the author’s agency received is itself informed by structural inequality and a world that advantages certain cultural embodiments, dispositions, actions, and ways of being over others. Agency is seldom explicitly acknowledged in literature …