Momentums of success, illusio and habitus: High-achieving upper secondary students’ reasons for seeking academic success

Through interviews with 52 upper-secondary students from different socioeconomic, educational and migrant/native backgrounds, the article examines students’ own stories of what drives them to perform well in school. Different kinds ‘illusios’ are reconstructed terms Bourdieu's sociology; Revanche, Proficiency, Fear failing Expectations. They relate forms social energy emotions, such as desire for rehabilitation self or family eyes other, drive justification. Some is fuelled shame not reaching same position parents, meaning falling out system, while others driven by an urge be knowledgeable. These illusios work differently relation habitus.