1st Edition
Class Strategies and the Education Market The Middle Classes and Social Advantage
By Stephen J. Ball
Copyright 2003
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
1. Class and Strategy 2. Market Research! The Inclination and Capacity for Choice 3. Cultural Capacity and Social Capital 4. Fear and Anxiety 5. Starting Early! 6. We are all Libertarians now? 7. 'Tawney's Curse': Class Divisions in Education
Biography
Stephen J. Ball
'Ball is to be complemented on the excellent structure of the book ... An extremely valuable and much needed piece of empirical research.' - Sociology
