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O'Donoghue, Mary – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2013
This article explores how a small sample of working-class mothers encounters the field of education. In the management of family and their children's schooling, mothers bring to bear and replicate ways of knowing that are embodied, are historical and that offer many-sided insights into profoundly stratified societies. Here I draw on Bourdieu's…
Descriptors: Working Class, Mothers, Social Theories, Parent Role
Calarco, Jessica McCrory – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Despite popular beliefs about social mobility in American society, research consistently shows that inequalities are reproduced across generations. And yet, while social reproduction hinges on the transmission of advantages from parents to children, scholars take for granted children's role in this process. We do not know whether children…
Descriptors: Social Class, Longitudinal Studies, Ethnography, Working Class