Class practices : how parents help their children get good jobs / Fiona Devine.
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TextPublication details: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.Description: 1 online resource (xi, 285 pages)Content type: - text
- computer
- online resource
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- Employees -- Recruiting -- Social aspects -- Great Britain
- Employees -- Recruiting -- Social aspects -- United States
- Social mobility -- Great Britain
- Social mobility -- United States
- Parents -- Social networks -- Great Britain
- Parents -- Social networks -- United States
- Education -- Parent participation -- Great Britain
- Education -- Parent participation -- United States
- Social surveys -- Great Britain
- Social surveys -- United States
- Vocational guidance -- Parent participation -- Great Britain
- Vocational guidance -- Parent participation -- United States
- Orientation professionnelle -- Participation des parents -- Grande-Bretagne
- Orientation professionnelle -- Participation des parents -- États-Unis
- Mobilité sociale -- Grande-Bretagne
- Mobilité sociale -- États-Unis
- Parents -- Réseaux sociaux -- Grande-Bretagne
- Parents -- Réseaux sociaux -- États-Unis
- Éducation -- Participation des parents -- Grande-Bretagne
- Éducation -- Participation des parents -- États-Unis
- Enquêtes sociales -- Grande-Bretagne
- Enquêtes sociales -- États-Unis
- Personnel -- Recrutement -- Aspect social -- Grande-Bretagne
- Personnel -- Recrutement -- Aspect social -- États-Unis
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Social Classes
- Education -- Parent participation
- Employees -- Recruiting -- Social aspects
- Parents -- Social networks
- Social mobility
- Social surveys
- Great Britain
- United States
- Sociale klassen
- Sociale mobiliteit
- Ouders
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- HN400.S65 D48 2004eb
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-275) and indexes.
Material help with education and employment -- Financial choices and sacrifices for children -- Aspirations and ambitions for 'good' jobs -- Hopes, happiness and 'fulfilling potential' -- Luck and contacts in the forging of careers -- Networks and friends in school and beyond.
This is an important new comparative study of social mobility based on qualitative interviews with middle-class parents in America and Britain. It addresses the key issue of the stability of class relations and middle-class reproduction and how parents seek to increase their children's chances of educational success and occupational advancement.
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