ABSTRACT
Ingram and Abrahams, discuss the sense of reflexivity that working-class students undergo in higher education when they achieve social mobility. In Milltown Community Academy, entrepreneurship is not just good business sense but a set of cultural and social skills to be harnessed for future success in education and beyond. In the words of the academy sponsor, it is a way of life. In Bourdieus work, there are two ways in which doxa can enter thought; one is through the straightened opinion of orthodoxy, which seeks to reinstate the purest form of doxa. The other is heterodoxy, which seeks to oppose; it is the choice-heresy-made possible by existence to competing possibilities and to the explicit critique of the sum of the total of the alternative not chosen that the established order implies. For Bourdieu, doxa contributed to the reproduction of social institutions and relations. Doxa as pre-reflexive, according to Bourdieu, means that a sense of limits becomes internalised within agents.
