Class Practices: How Parents Help Their Children Get Good Jobs

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Cambridge University Press, 29 avr. 2004 - 285 pages
The implications for public policy, especially public investment in higher education, are considered."--BOOK JACKET.
 

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Introduction
1
Material help with education and training
18
Financial choices and sacrifices for children
44
Expectations and hopes for educational success
69
Fulfilling potential and securing happiness
95
Contacts luck and career success
120
Friends and networks in school and beyond
146
Conclusion
171
The interviewees
190
Doing comparative research
194
Notes
214
List of references
265
Author index
276
Subject index
279
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Fiona Devine is Professor of Sociology at Manchester University and has been a visiting fellow at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. She has published extensively and is a former Chair of the editorial board of the journal Sociology.

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