Which scholar's ethnography 'Learning to Labour' examined how working-class boys' own resistance culture led them into working-class jobs?
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Correct answer: The sociologist Paul Willis
Paul Willis's 'Learning to Labour' showed how the counter-school culture of working-class 'lads' ironically prepared them for working-class jobs, a landmark in educational ethnography.
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