Struktúra és communitas
Structure and communitas

Subcultural problemsolving knowledge in an alternative high school

Summary/Abstract: TThe 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.

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