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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1. Verfasser: Devine, Fiona (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2004
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  • 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