The Study on the Peer Culture of Junior High School Students：The Application, Analysis and Criticize of the “Culture Production” Theory Proposed by Paul Willis

[[abstract]]The researcher tried to analyze the cultural and political meaning of working class students’ resistance culture from the cultural struggle between classes within the space and the specialty of working class historical development, and we testified to the reason and legitimacy of the theory of culture production proposed by Paul Willis in the advanced stage. The main concern on this study is about how the working class students took advantage on working class cultural code and habitus accumulated by the primitive class to interact with the political chances dynamically, and how they could show the peculiarity of the politics of culture movement on the argument of interpretation. The purposes, according to the front concern, of this study are as followed: 1. To understand the historical factors, cultural peculiarity and pedagogical theorem or ism of the formative process of working class. 2. To probe into the theorem and methods of the resistance culture, proposed by Paul Willis, happened within the working class junior high school students. 3. To examine the reason of the culture resistance of working class junior high school students by means of theory of culture production. 4. To analyze how the meanings, provided from the cultural-resistance of working class junior high school students, contributed to the educational policy and system. The results of the study showed that: 1. The lads’ resistance culture, family, street and factory match the characteristic of working class. 2. The lads’ insight toward the campus life includes capitalism, meritocracy, and managerialism. 3. Capitalism also restricts the working class students in the aspects of moral concepts, viewpoints of labor, and construct of patriarchy society. 4. The lads preferred to bear the burden caused from the resistance to value of campus custom instead of being predominated or surrendered. 5. The lads’ construction under the culture of resistance deeply affects the option of working class toward the occupations.