LEADER 04102nam 22008532 450 001 9910784403903321 005 20151005020621.0 010 $a1-107-14411-6 010 $a1-280-54105-9 010 $a0-511-21512-6 010 $a0-511-21691-2 010 $a0-511-21154-6 010 $a0-511-31559-7 010 $a0-511-48877-7 010 $a0-511-21331-X 035 $a(CKB)1000000000353841 035 $a(EBL)266533 035 $a(OCoLC)171139077 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000122959 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11143335 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000122959 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10131732 035 $a(PQKB)11718836 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9780511488771 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC266533 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL266533 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10131634 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL54105 035 $a(OCoLC)70900817 035 $a(PPN)166817791 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000353841 100 $a20090227d2004|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aClass practices $ehow parents help their children get good jobs /$fFiona Devine$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aCambridge :$cCambridge University Press,$d2004. 215 $a1 online resource (xi, 285 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). 311 $a0-521-00653-8 311 $a0-521-80941-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 265-275) and indexes. 327 $aMaterial 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. 330 $aThis 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. 606 $aEmployees$xRecruiting$xSocial aspects$zGreat Britain 606 $aEmployees$xRecruiting$xSocial aspects$zUnited States 606 $aSocial mobility$zGreat Britain 606 $aSocial mobility$zUnited States 606 $aParents$xSocial networks$zGreat Britain 606 $aParents$xSocial networks$zUnited States 606 $aEducation$xParent participation$zGreat Britain 606 $aEducation$xParent participation$zUnited States 606 $aSocial surveys$zGreat Britain 606 $aSocial surveys$zUnited States 615 0$aEmployees$xRecruiting$xSocial aspects 615 0$aEmployees$xRecruiting$xSocial aspects 615 0$aSocial mobility 615 0$aSocial mobility 615 0$aParents$xSocial networks 615 0$aParents$xSocial networks 615 0$aEducation$xParent participation 615 0$aEducation$xParent participation 615 0$aSocial surveys 615 0$aSocial surveys 676 $a305.5/13/09 700 $aDevine$b Fiona$0141991 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910784403903321 996 $aClass practices$93691833 997 $aUNINA