Circuits of Schooling
A Sociological Exploration of Parental Choice of School in Social Class Contexts
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3533345 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stephen Ball (0000-0001-7446-4201, King's College London), Stephen J Ball (King's College London), Richard Bowe (King's College London), Sharon Gewirtz (0000-0002-5530-1121, King's College London) |
| Year | 1995 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 52-78 |
| Publication date | 1995-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Sociological Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-0261 • E-ISSN: 1467-954X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1467-954x.1995.tb02478.x |
| OpenAlex | W1967438826 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 217 |
| References cited | 11 |
Parental choice of school is one of the main platforms of government education policy and is the centre piece of the Parents Charter. But sociological understanding of choice and choice-making is woefully underdeveloped. This paper draws on an ESRC study of market forces in education to explore social class variations in choice of school in one specific locality. The complexity of choice-making is portrayed using data from interviews with parents and it is argued that middle-class parents are taking full advantage of 'the market' to sustain or re-assert their class advantages
Charter · Charter school · Class (philosophy) · Epistemology · Government (linguistics) · Locality · Political science · School choice · Social class · Social science · Sociological research · Sociology · Early Childhood Education and Development · Gender Studies · Law · Parental Involvement in Education · School Choice and Performance
School preferences across countries and social groups
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Education and poverty
Girls in the Education Market
Cultural complicities
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La elección de escuela en sectores pobres
Bourdieu and the Big Society
Mixed‐income schools and housing
Re‐branding urban schools
Choice, competition and segregation
What's in a number? Commentary on Gorard and Fitz's ‘Investigating the determinants of segregation between schools’
Parents, privilege and the education market‐place
Educar a niñas y niños de clase media en Santiago
Captured by the Discourse? Issues and concerns in researching ‘parental choice‘
Konsten att välja rätt spårvagn
New Modes of Control in the Public Service
School choice and the search for an educational market
Policy-driven education-led gentrification and its spatiotemporal dynamics
The Enduring Nature of the Tripartite System of Secondary Schooling in Germany
Education and the Middle Classes
Parental Choice', Consumption and Social Theory
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Student Mobilities, Migration and the Internationalization of Higher Education
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Equality in education
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Motivações para a escolarização bilíngue
The new game of choosing elite schools
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Le choix de l’école lors de la transition primaire-secondaire par les parents non-migrants à Montréal
Knowing one's place
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Reconstructing choice
School choice in an English village
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Two Tiers Emerging? School Choice and Educational Achievement Disparities among Young Migrants and Non‐migrants in Galway City and Urban Fringe
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School Effectiveness and the Displacement of Equity Discourses in Education
On the cusp
Inclusive education
Challenging the social reproduction crisis
East Asian Mothers’ attitudes towards their children’s education in England
Identities at Stake
Community and school choice
Living with parental involvement
Parental voice
School choice with education vouchers
Markets in education
Challenges in theorising ‘Black middle‐class’ women
Circuits of education, rural gentrification, and family migration from the global city
Schooling choice in South Africa
Demand rationalities in contexts of poverty
Unequal inclusion
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Parental preferences in school choice
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The Final Frontier
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Parcoursup
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Graduate Blues
The impact of the computerization of a high school's pedagogical administration on homeroom teacher–parents interrelations
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Living in the Bubble
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Location 3 Education 3
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Capital, habitus, and education in contemporary China
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Distinction
Happiness’ as a criterion of parents’ choice of school
Parental choice in Scotland
Parents, privilege and the education market‐place
Captured by the Discourse? Issues and concerns in researching ‘parental choice‘
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| Unique citing works | 217 |
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| Citations per year | 6,58 |
| Citation span | 1993 - 2026 (34) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 187 |