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Cook, William Robert Amilan – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2021
This paper investigates the production of space and language policy in Ras Al Khaimah, a city in the United Arab Emirates. The paper builds on recent work in socio- and applied linguistics that has made use of sociospatial concepts from human geography. It argues that researchers should not only investigate space as a factor structuring language…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries, Applied Linguistics
Wallace, Derron – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2018
There is a significant, longstanding tradition in British sociological research that renders cultural capital synonymous with whiteness. This article suggests that one substantive factor that contributes to the enduring relationship between whiteness and cultural capital is the paucity of research on the Black and ethnic minority middle classes.…
Descriptors: Cultural Capital, Whites, Racial Attitudes, Racial Bias
White, Carmen M. – Ethnography and Education, 2013
Several societies throughout the global North and South are now witnessing unprecedented patterns of marginally higher female academic performance and educational attainment. But the processes that have generated such patterns and responses to their development have not been uniform across or within these societies. In multiracial Fiji, statistics…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Achievement, Females, Institutional Environment
Calarco, Jessica McCrory – American Sociological Review, 2011
What role do children play in education and stratification? Are they merely passive recipients of unequal opportunities that schools and parents create for them? Or do they actively shape their own opportunities? Through a longitudinal, ethnographic study of one socioeconomically diverse, public elementary school, I show that children's…
Descriptors: Working Class, Ethnography, Help Seeking, Social Class
Weininger, Elliot B.; Lareau, Annette – Journal of Marriage and Family, 2009
Stratification is a central issue in family research, yet relatively few studies highlight its impact on family processes. Drawing on in-depth interviews (N = 137) and observational data (N = 12), we extend Melvin Kohn's research on childrearing values by examining how parental commitments to self-direction and conformity are enacted in daily…
Descriptors: Middle Class, Social Behavior, Parent Child Relationship, Ethnography
Davis, Pauline – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2007
This article reports on case study research of seven- and eight-year-old children's discourse about reading. The case studies were selected to provide classrooms in contrasting neighbourhoods within a white "working class" town in the North of England. Mixed methods were employed, but primarily the case studies were ethnographic in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sociocultural Patterns, Middle Class, Case Studies