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Pearman, Francis A., II; Marie Greene, Danielle – Sociology of Education, 2022
Largely overlooked in the empirical literature on gentrification are the potential effects school closures have in the process. This study begins to fill this gap by integrating longitudinal data on all U.S. metropolitan neighborhoods from the Neighborhood Change Database with data on the universe of school closures from the National Center for…
Descriptors: School Closing, Disadvantaged, Social Class, Land Acquisition
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Clerge, Orly – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2023
Drawing from an ethnography, this paper evaluates the motivations of Black American and Black immigrant parents when selecting high schools for their millennial teenage children in a segregated city and suburbs of New York. Black middle class parents encounter racial exclusion in the areas of work and residence. However, more research is needed to…
Descriptors: African Americans, Middle Class, Racial Segregation, Urban Schools
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Ferreira, Rosemary – Journal of Student Affairs, New York University, 2020
While the literature on the experiences of working-class Students of Color at selective, historically White institutions has grown significantly over the past twenty-five years, how this student population is making sense of their social class identity as they gain access to dominant cultural and social capital at their institutions remains…
Descriptors: Working Class, Minority Group Students, Social Class, Self Concept
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Apple, Michael W. – Educational Policy, 2017
In England, we might say that "the Empire has come home." This means that while racism and the processes of racialization are indeed extraordinarily powerful, there will not only be strong similarities between say the United States and England but also significant differences in how these things play out both now and in the past. This is…
Descriptors: Race, Social Class, Educational Strategies, Blacks
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Languille, Sonia – Oxford Review of Education, 2016
The paper sets out to challenge the notions of "affordable" private schools in the context of South Africa. It is guided by one main question: "affordable private schools for whom?" It argues that, contrary to claims by its public and private proponents, affordable private schools in South Africa do not cater for poor children.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Private Schools, Social Class, Blacks
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Johnson, Nicole Jeanine – Penn GSE Perspectives on Urban Education, 2016
The definition of poverty in developed nations is "lack of income and productive resources sufficient to ensure sustainable livelihoods, hunger… lack of access to education and other basic services; increased morbidity and mortality from illness… unsafe environments; and social discrimination and exclusion" (Raphael, 2013, p. 5). Tenets…
Descriptors: Poverty, War, Developing Nations, Developed Nations
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Vincent, Carol; Ball, Stephen; Rollock, Nicola; Gillborn, David – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2013
This paper draws on qualitative data exploring the experiences of first-generation middle-class Black Caribbean-heritage parents, their own parents, and their children. We focus on the different ways in which race and class intersect in shaping attitudes towards education and subsequent educational practices. We argue that the nature of racism has…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Middle Class, Blacks, Racial Bias
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Vincent, Carol; Rollock, Nicola; Ball, Stephen; Gillborn, David – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2012
This paper reports on data drawn from a study exploring the educational strategies of 62 Black Caribbean heritage middle-class parents. In this paper, we consider the respective roles of race and class in the shaping of parents' educational strategies, deploying an analysis that focuses on their intersection and seeks to hold both race and class…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Strategies, Parent School Relationship, Middle Class
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Ball, Stephen J.; Rollock, Nicola; Vincent, Carol; Gillborn, David – Research Papers in Education, 2013
This paper addresses some particular aspects of the complex intersections between race and social class. It is based upon data collected as part of a two-year Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) funded project exploring the "Educational Strategies of the Black Middle Classes" (BMC). ("The Educational Strategies of the Black…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Working Class, Middle Class, Racial Bias
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Gillborn, David; Rollock, Nicola; Vincent, Carol; Ball, Stephen J. – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2012
The article discusses the findings of an ESRC funded project (RES-062-23-1880) which used in-depth interviews to explore the educational experiences and strategies of 62 Black Caribbean parents; the biggest qualitative study of education and the Black middle class yet conducted in the UK. The article focuses on the parents' interactions with their…
Descriptors: African American Children, Middle Class, Criticism, Educational Experience
Attewell, Paul, Ed.; Newman, Katherine S., Ed. – Oxford University Press, 2010
The last half century has seen a dramatic expansion in access to primary, secondary, and higher education in many nations around the world. Educational expansion is desirable for a country's economy, beneficial for educated individuals themselves, and is also a strategy for greater social harmony. But has greater access to education reduced or…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Access to Education, Global Approach, Foreign Countries
Wolfram, Walter A. – 1968
The measurement of sociolinguistic behavior requires the formulation of a unit which can take into account continuous, ordered variation within and across discrete linguistic types--the linguistic variable. The linguistic variable, itself an abstraction, is realized in actual speech behavior by variants. The formulation of the linguistic variable…
Descriptors: Black Community, Black Dialects, Blacks, Dialect Studies
Higginbotham, Elizabeth – 1978
An examination was made of the antecedents to singlehood for black women, based upon questionnaire and interview data from a larger study of 56 black women who graduated from predominantly white colleges in a northeastern city between 1968 and 1970. During the past few decades, researchers have found that a high percentage of educated black women…
Descriptors: Adults, Blacks, College Graduates, Differences
Lewis, Michael; Wilson, Cornelia D. – 1971
This study was conducted to observe the effects of social class on the interaction of mothers and their 12-week-old infants. Data on the infants' cognitive and attentive behavior was also obtained. Each of 32 white and black infants from five different levels of social class was observed at home for two full hours of waking time. Observed infant…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Black Mothers, Blacks, Child Rearing
Wilson, Catherine Walker – 1981
The relationship of social class and racial prejudice to the home management skills of black Americans was the focus of this study. A questionnaire (a copy of which appears in an appendix) was used to interview a sample of 100 people divided into four subgroups: low social class blacks, low social class whites, middle social class blacks, and…
Descriptors: Blacks, Home Management, Lower Class, Middle Class
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