‘life should be until you die’ Stated Felicity (Parfitt 2013a line. 87). [Photo by Null Value at Flickr.com] From an initial analysis of my focus groups young people seem to be aware of conformist and nonconformist elements in the stories— such as the compulsion to accept social “norms” and values—along with other potentially influential narratives such as media, film, television, video games, books, the internet, and education . I found it interesting that in the all-girls school Group One related the content of the stories to crime and how to treat other people. In week one whilst talking about the story MacCodram (MacIntyre 2012) the group’s conversation revolved around crime before they even reached my focus group question about conformist and nonconformist elements that they recognised in the story (lines. 82-91), Mary I know this is getting off the subject a bit but if you m...
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