1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910457738803321

Autore

Devine Fiona

Titolo

Class practices : how parents help their children get good jobs / / Fiona Devine [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2004

ISBN

1-107-14411-6

1-280-54105-9

0-511-21512-6

0-511-21691-2

0-511-21154-6

0-511-31559-7

0-511-48877-7

0-511-21331-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 285 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

305.5/13/09

Soggetti

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

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-275) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Material help with education and employment -- Financial choices and sacrifices for children -- Aspirations and ambitions for 'good' jobs -- Hopes, happiness and 'fulfilling potential' -- Luck and contacts in the forging of careers -- Networks and friends in school and beyond.

Sommario/riassunto

This important new book is a comparative study of social mobility



based on qualitative interviews with middle-class parents in America and Britain. It addresses the key issue in stratification research, namely, the stability of class relations and middle-class reproduction. Drawing on interviewee accounts of how parents mobilised economic, cultural and social resources to help them into professional careers, it then considers how the interviewees, as parents, seek to increase their children's chances of educational success and occupational advancement. Middle-class parents may try to secure their children's social position but it is not an easy or straightforward affair.  With the decline of the quality of state education and increased job insecurity in the labour market since the 1970s and 1980s, the reproduction of advantage is more difficult than in the affluent decades of the 1950s and 1960s. The implications for public policy, especially public investment in higher education, are considered.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910778422803321

Autore

Tavecchio Louis W. C. <1946->

Titolo

Systematisch én flexibel [[electronic resource] ] : methodiekontwikkeling in het spanningsveld tussen evaluatie en beleid / / L.W.C. Tavecchio

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam, : HVA Publicaties, c2008

ISBN

1-282-40186-6

9786612401862

90-485-0810-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (44 p.)

Collana

HvA Openbare Lessen

Disciplina

001.4

001.42

709

Soggetti

Qualitative research

Education - Research - Methodology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Olandese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Openbare les uitgesproken op 3 december 2008 Hogeschool van Amsterdam."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 39-40).



Sommario/riassunto

'De Karthuizer' houden zich bezig met maatschappelijke, culturele en sociaal-pedagogische vraagstukken, vooral uit de sector zorg, welzijn en cultuur in Amsterdam en omstreken. Het kan daarbij om van alles gaan: van jeugdprojecten tot schuldsanering. Goed onderzoek hoort aan de basis van de aanpak van dit soort vraagstukken te liggen. In Nederland is men, wat de aanpak van maatschappelijke problemen betreft, niet zo onderzoekminded. Liever vindt men het wiel opnieuw uit. Een voorbeeld is het buurtproject waarbij vaders worden ingeschakeld om lastige jongeren in het gareel te krijgen. Veel grot