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CLASS STRATEGIES AND THE EDUCATION MARKET
THE MIDDLE CLASSES AND SOCIAL ADVANTAGE |
| By: |
Stephen J. Ball |
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Paperback |
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£48.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0415272777 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780415272773 |
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| Publisher: |
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
19 December, 2002 |
| Pages: |
224 |
| Description: |
The middle classes skilfully, assiduously and strategically use the sphere of education to their advantage in processes of class formation and maintenance. Ball asks what are the skills, attitudes, perspectives and aspirations at work here. |
| Synopsis: |
Class Strategies and the Education Market examines the ways in which the middle classes maintain and improve their social advantages in and through education. Drawing on an extensive series of interviews with parents and children, this book identifies key moments of decision making in the construction of the educational trajectories of middle class children. Stephen J. Ball organises his analysis around the key concepts of social closure, social capital, values and principles and risk, while bringing a broad range of up-to-date sociological theory to bear upon his subject. From this thorough analysis, valuable and thought-provoking insights emerge into the assiduous care and considerable effort and expenditure which goes into ensuring the educational success of the middle class child The middle classes are a sociological enigma, presenting the social researcher with considerable analytic and theoretical difficulties. Class Strategies and the Education Market provides a set of working tools for class analysis and the examination of class practices. Above all, it offers new ways of thinking about class theory and the relationships between classes in late modern society. |
| Illustrations: |
1 |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Routledge Falmer |
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