Class practices how parents help their children get good jobs
This important new book is a comparative study of social mobility based on qualitative interviews with middle-class parents in America and Britain. It addresses the key issue in stratification research, namely, the stability of class relations and middle-class reproduction. Drawing on interviewee ac...
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Sprache: | English |
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Cambridge University Press
2004
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Material help with education and employment
- Financial choices and sacrifices for children
- Aspirations and ambitions for 'good' jobs
- Hopes, happiness and 'fulfilling potential'
- Luck and contacts in the forging of careers
- Networks and friends in school and beyond