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• Structure and communitas: Subcultural problemsolving knowledge in an alternative high school

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  Szentesi Balazs

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  The paper describes the relationship between subcultural and school/institutional interpretations
  in the inner discourse of an alternative school (the ’Diákház’) in Budapest. Interpretations and
  practices, that belonging two different interpretive frameworks, appear simultaneously and
  intertwined in the Diákház communication scene. This contributes to problem-solving
  capacities/knowledge that individually do not appear in either of the two. In this discourse, the
  subcultural manifestations of difference, deviance, marginality, resistance or communitas, and
  the manifestations of knowledge, autonomy, responsibility and the hierarchical structure of the
  school sometimes appear in opposition, sometimes in reinforcement to each other. The knowledge
  formed in the discourse can be used by the Diákház to keep (formerly drop-out) students within
  the institution, and by the students to reduce their own feeling of invalidity. In this way, the
  Diákház is able to use the two opposite social states, communitas and structure, to its own
  benefit