Middle Class Fractions, Childcare and the 'Relational' and 'Normative' Aspects of Class Practices
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3951245 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stephen Ball (0000-0001-7446-4201, Universidad de Londres), Stephen J Ball (University of London), C Vincent (0000-0003-1284-1950, Universidad de Londres), Sophie Kemp (University of London), Soile Pietikainen (University of London) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 478-502 |
| Publication date | 2004-11-01 |
| 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.2004.00492.x |
| OpenAlex | W2136752232 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 46 |
| References cited | 32 |
The emphasis in class research remains on the structural aspects of class, class processes are neglected. This paper focuses upon some relational and normative aspects of class through an examination of social divisions produced and constructed within middle class families' choices of childcare. Working with data from two contrasting settings in London (Battersea and Stoke Newington) three issues are addressed in the paper; the extent to which childcare arrangements both substantively and structurally position children differently within long term educational careers; the ways in which the use of choice in a market system of child care and education, works to produce patterns of social closure that quietly discriminate via the collectivist criterion of class and racial membership; and the ways in which child care choices also point-up and perpetuate subtle distinctions and tensions of values and lifestyle within the middle class, between class factions. Concepts drawn from the work of Bourdieu are deployed throughout
Class (philosophy) · Closure (psychology) · Collectivism · Epistemology · Individualism · Middle class · Normative · Political science · Politics · Social class · Sociology · Working class · Gender Studies · Global Education and Multiculturalism · Global Educational Policies and Reforms · Law · Psychology · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Social Psychology
"It's like Saying "Coloured
Introduction
Parents for whom school ‘is not that big a deal’. Parental support in home schooling during lockdown in France
Conflicted cultivation
Regendering care in the aftermath of recession
Class-based preschool enrolment - social stratification and quality differences in the Swedish preschool market
Seeking Urbanity or Seeking Diversity? Middle-class family households in a mixed neighbourhood in Germany
Family contexts, norms and young people's orientations
The impact of social class on parent–professional interaction in school exclusion processes
‘How do you feel? What is your heart doing?’ … ‘It’s jumping’
Challenging the social reproduction crisis
The reproduction of privilege
Inequality in pre-school education and care in Germany
Middle-class young women
Mothers’ search for infant child care
Parental choice and the rural primary school
The Quest for Invisibility
Familiens rolle i reproduksjonen av ulikhet. Kunnskapsbidrag fra kvalitative studier av foreldreskap
Selective Identification, Quiet Distancing
Academic self- concept, self-esteem and school attitudes in pre and mid adolescents
Social mix, schooling and intersectionality
Classed parental practices in a modern welfare state
Childcare, choice and social class
The bubble of privilege. Young, privately educated women talk about social class
Gendered parenting and conjugal negotiation over children’s organised extracurricular activities
School admission in Chile, new rules of the game, and the devaluation of Middle-class capitals
Widening the gap
Complicity and contestation in the gentrifying urban primary school
Education, Class Fractions and the Local Rules of Spatial Relations
Concerted Cultivation? Parenting Values, Education and Class Diversity
Middle-Class Poverty Politics
Racialized Compensatory Cultivation
Middle class by profession
Parental values in the UK
Together apart' or 'apart together'? - middle-class parents' choice of playgrounds and playground interactions in socially diverse neighbourhoods
Agentic Practice and Privileging Orientations Among Privately Educated Young Women
Being Good Parents or Being Good Citizens
Reinterpreting the Relation between Motherhood and Paid Work
Love Labour as a Distinct and Non-Commodifiable Form of Care Labour
Cultural repertoires of school choice
Cold intimacies' in parents' negotiations of work-family practices and parental leave
The Dynamics of Motherhood Performance
Coming Home to Love and Class
Making Up' the Middle-Class Child
Social class, intensive parenting norms and parental values for children
We Only Teach Them How to Be Together
Renewing class analysis
Property Bureaucracy and Culture
A Phenomenology of Working-Class Experience (Cambridge Cultural Social Studies)
Class Strategies and the Education Market
The Structuring of Pedagogic Discourse
Marxism and class theory
Distinction
Bringing Class Back In
Distinction
Social Change And The Middle Classes
A Phenomenology of Working-Class Experience
The social geography of childcare
Class Differentiation in Education
A Market in Love? Choosing Pre‐school Childcare
Social Capital, Gentrification and Neighbourhood Change in London
Self-interest and Liberal Educational Discourse
On Sociology
Equality and Partiality
Class Analysis and the Reorientation of Class Theory
Class analysis and the reorientation of class theory
Coming to Terms with London
The Gendered Restructuring of the Middle Classes
Circuits of Schooling
Class Analysis and the Stability of Class Relations
Gender and Class Revisited; or, the Poverty of 'Patriarchy
Investing in Class Analysis Futures
Women at Class Crossroads
Clinging to the Wreckage? Gender and the Legacy of Class
Ordinary, Ambivalent and Defensive
| Unique citing works | 46 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,19 |
| Citation span | 2005 - 2024 (20) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 45 |