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Class practices : = how parents help their children get good jobs /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Class practices :/ Fiona Devine.
Reminder of title:	how parents help their children get good jobs /
Author:	Devine, Fiona,
Description:	1 online resource (xi, 285 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	Employees - Recruiting - Great Britain. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511488771
ISBN:	9780511488771 (ebook)

Class practices : = how parents help their children get good jobs /
Devine, Fiona,

Class practices :how parents help their children get good jobs /Fiona Devine. - 1 online resource (xi, 285 pages) :digital, PDF file(s).

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

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 important new book is a comparative study of social mobility based on qualitative interviews with middle-class parents in America and Britain. It addresses the key issue in stratification research, namely, the stability of class relations and middle-class reproduction. Drawing on interviewee accounts of how parents mobilised economic, cultural and social resources to help them into professional careers, it then considers how the interviewees, as parents, seek to increase their children's chances of educational success and occupational advancement. Middle-class parents may try to secure their children's social position but it is not an easy or straightforward affair. With the decline of the quality of state education and increased job insecurity in the labour market since the 1970s and 1980s, the reproduction of advantage is more difficult than in the affluent decades of the 1950s and 1960s. The implications for public policy, especially public investment in higher education, are considered.

ISBN: 9780511488771 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

803522
Employees
--Recruiting--Great Britain.

LC Class. No.: HN400.S65 / D48 2004

Dewey Class. No.: 305.5/13/09

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