White Middle-Class Identities and Urban Schooling [electronic resource] /
Reay, D.author.
Crozier, G.author.
James, D.author.
This book examines experiences and implications of 'against-the-grain' school choices, where white middle class families choose ordinary and 'low performing' secondary schools for their children. It offers a unique view of identity formation, taking in matters like family history, locality and whiteness.
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Cover; Contents; List of Tables; Series Editors' Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: The White Middle-Classes in the Twenty-First Century - Identities Under Siege?; 1 White Middle-Class Identity Formation: Theory and Practice; 2 Family History, Class Practices and Habitus; 3 Habitus as a Sense of Place; 4 Against-the-Grain School Choice in Neoliberal Times; 5 A Darker Shade of Pale: Whiteness as Integral to Middle-Class Identity; 6 The Psycho-Social: Ambivalences and Anxieties of Privilege
7 Young People and the Urban Comprehensive: Remaking Cosmopolitan Citizens or Reproducing Hegemonic White Middle-Class Values?8 Reinvigorating Democracy: Middle-Class Moralities in NeoLiberal Times; Conclusion; Appendix 1: Methods and Methodology; Appendix 2: Parental Occupations and Sector; Appendix 3: The Sample Families in Terms of ACORN Categories; Notes; References; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This book examines experiences and implications of 'against-the-grain' school choices, where white middle class families choose ordinary and 'low performing' secondary schools for their children. It offers a unique view of identity formation, taking in matters like family history, locality and whiteness.
Social policy.
Ethnicity.
Educational sociology.
Educational sociology .
Education and sociology.
Social structure.
Social inequality.
Ethnology.
Social Policy.
Ethnicity Studies.
Sociology of Education.
Sociology of Education.
Social Structure, Social Inequality.
Social Anthropology.