04102nam 22008532 450 991045773880332120151005020621.01-107-14411-61-280-54105-90-511-21512-60-511-21691-20-511-21154-60-511-31559-70-511-48877-70-511-21331-X(CKB)1000000000353841(EBL)266533(OCoLC)171139077(SSID)ssj0000122959(PQKBManifestationID)11143335(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000122959(PQKBWorkID)10131732(PQKB)11718836(UkCbUP)CR9780511488771(MiAaPQ)EBC266533(PPN)166817791(Au-PeEL)EBL266533(CaPaEBR)ebr10131634(CaONFJC)MIL54105(OCoLC)70900817(EXLCZ)99100000000035384120090227d2004|||| uy| 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierClass practices how parents help their children get good jobs /Fiona Devine[electronic resource]Cambridge :Cambridge University Press,2004.1 online resource (xi, 285 pages) digital, PDF file(s)Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).0-521-00653-8 0-521-80941-X Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-275) and indexes.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.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.EmployeesRecruitingSocial aspectsGreat BritainEmployeesRecruitingSocial aspectsUnited StatesSocial mobilityGreat BritainSocial mobilityUnited StatesParentsSocial networksGreat BritainParentsSocial networksUnited StatesEducationParent participationGreat BritainEducationParent participationUnited StatesSocial surveysGreat BritainSocial surveysUnited StatesEmployeesRecruitingSocial aspectsEmployeesRecruitingSocial aspectsSocial mobilitySocial mobilityParentsSocial networksParentsSocial networksEducationParent participationEducationParent participationSocial surveysSocial surveys305.5/13/09Devine Fiona141991UkCbUPUkCbUPBOOK9910457738803321Class practices2445337UNINA