Class practices : how parents help their children get good jobs

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

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...

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Main Author: Devine, Fiona
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Subjects:
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.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Social Classes.
Vocational guidance > Parent participation
Education > Parent participation
Employees > Recruiting > Social aspects
Parents > Social networks
Social mobility
Social surveys
Sociale klassen.
Sociale mobiliteit.
Ouders.
Great Britain
United States
Electronic books.
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