Parents’ responses to the school quasi‐market

Bibliographic Data

ID11483151
AuthorsSteven Carroll (corresponding author), Geoffrey Walford (0000-0001-6896-9625)
Year1997
Volume12
Issue1
Pages3-26
Publication date1997-03-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueResearch Papers in Education (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0267-1522 • E-ISSN: 1470-1146
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/0267152970120102
OpenAlexW2145526822
LanguageEN
Citations received9
References cited17

This article reports the results of a qualitative interview study conducted with the parents of 32 children who were about to move to secondary schools. The sample was drawn from two areas of contrasting socioeconomic status within a single local education authority, and sought to investigate the relationships between socioeconomic status and the families’ activities within the quasi‐market of schools. The results are discussed in terms of the degree to which the families acted strategically in their local markets. It is shown that the relationships are complex and multifaceted, and cannot be reduced to simple groups of similarly acting families. However, strong relationships were found between both socioeconomic status and educational level and the degree to which families ‘played the market’

Demographic economics · Developmental psychology · Economics · Population · Sample (material · Socioeconomic status · Sociology · Demography · Multilingual Education and Policy · Parental Involvement in Education · Psychology · School Choice and Performance · Social Psychology

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