Class Practices: How Parents Help Their Children Get Good JobsCambridge University Press, 29 avr. 2004 - 285 pages The implications for public policy, especially public investment in higher education, are considered."--BOOK JACKET. |
Table des matières
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 |
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academic success academically able African American American interviewees aspirations Boston Bourdieu Britain British interviewees Bruce Brown career chil children's education choice course crucial cultural capital cultural resources daughter discussion doctors economic resources education system educational and occupational educational success enjoyed example expected experiences explained father friends go to college Goldthorpe Goldthorpe's grammar school help their children high school higher education hospital important influence inter interviewees spoke issues Ivy League Janet Jones Ken Butler kids levels lives medical school medicine middle middle-class parents mobilised their economic mother nomic occupational success opportunities parents mobilised partners physicians positions pressures prestigious primary school private education private school public school Rachel Garrett rational choice theory Ray Chapman recalled reproduction of advantage school system secure social capital social mobility social networks social resources talked teachers teaching theory things tion tripartite system viewees wanted their children women young