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Seghers, Marie; Boone, Simon; Van Avermaet, Piet – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2019
Social class differences in educational decision-making form an important explanation for persisting educational inequalities, particularly in choice-driven systems with early tracking. Nevertheless, little is known about the process preceding these choices, especially when school and track choice are interrelated. Building on school choice…
Descriptors: Social Class, Decision Making, Equal Education, Social Differences
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Cahill, Kevin – Research Papers in Education, 2018
This paper draws on a three-year critical ethnography which interrogated intersections of social class, school and identity in an urban Irish community. The focus here is on the psycho-spatial disidentifications, inscriptions and class fractioning enacted throughout the school and community of Portown by a cohort of succeeding students from this…
Descriptors: Social Class, Self Concept, Working Class, Social Mobility
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Bartel, Nettie R. – Child Development, 1971
Results of this study were interpreted in terms of the social control function served by the public schools. (Author/RY)
Descriptors: Achievement, Behavioral Science Research, Correlation, Hypothesis Testing