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Class Practices: How Parents Help Their Children Get Good Jobs
Devine, Fiona (University of Manchester)
Class Practices: How Parents Help Their Children Get Good Jobs
Devine, Fiona (University of Manchester)
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.
298 pages, 4 tables
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | April 29, 2004 |
ISBN13 | 9780521006538 |
Publishers | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 298 |
Dimensions | 153 × 228 × 19 mm · 486 g |
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