Symbolic Violence in Children’s Stories: Content Analysis in Bobo Magazine

Abstract

The upper-class dominates various social spaces in society, including children’s stories. Children’s stories as a means of socializing values also participate in socializing upper-class habitus in the storyline. This study aims to describe the children’s habitus as narrated in short stories published in Bobo magazine. The method used in this study is the quantitative content analysis method and critical discourse analysis. This study’s object is about 174 short stories published in Bobo magazine from January 2019 to August 2020, of which 110 stories were taken randomly as samples. The results show that most of the children’s habitus narrated in the stories were upper-class children’s habitus, reaching out to 87 or 79.1% of all stories. Meanwhile, lower-class children’s habitus was found in 30.9% of all stories. The habitus of upper-class children featured in the story consisting of go on an excursion, luxury living, own electronic goods, own expensive good, wearing nightgowns, reading, and writing. On the other side, the habitus of lower-class children habitus featured in the story consisting of playing traditional games, living in poverty, and doing lower-class work. In conclusion, the upper-class children’s habitus appears more dominantly within short stories in Bobo magazine. This study’s results are expected as recommend to parties related to children’s stories publication to present more balanced stories.

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“…Bourdieu uses this concept in explaining the ways in which elite groups or upper class groups control or force the social structure of society, both in their habits, culture, lifestyle to the lower groups to control them (Isnania, Martono, & Widyastuti, 2020;Karim, 2020;Sine, 2022). In this way, as a result, the lower class are forced to accept, undergo, and admit that the habits or habits of the upper classes are appropriate habits, while the habits of the lower classes are habits that they should accept and do not deserve to be put into the middle.…”