Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of figures and tables
- List of abbreviations
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- Introduction
- 1 Reproduction: social class inequality in education
- 2 The three schools
- 3 Aspiration, aspiration, aspiration: “The only thing they’ve forced me to do is keep my options open”
- 4 Knowledge, familiarity and physical proximity: “Everyone in my family has gone to university, I don’t see why I shouldn’t”
- 5 Option blocks that block options (GCSEs)
- 6 Packages, facilitating subjects and ‘keeping the options open’ (A levels)
- 7 Institutional concerted cultivation
- 8 Aim lower: leashing aspirations and internalising notions of (in)ability
- 9 Jake’s story: a journey to reflexivity
- Conclusion
- Appendix I Questionnaire
- Appendix II Parental Standard Occupational Classification 2010 groups
- Appendix III Grand Hill Grammar careers event question sheet
- Appendix IV Vignette sample
- Notes
- References
- Index
Notes
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 December 2024
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of figures and tables
- List of abbreviations
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- Introduction
- 1 Reproduction: social class inequality in education
- 2 The three schools
- 3 Aspiration, aspiration, aspiration: “The only thing they’ve forced me to do is keep my options open”
- 4 Knowledge, familiarity and physical proximity: “Everyone in my family has gone to university, I don’t see why I shouldn’t”
- 5 Option blocks that block options (GCSEs)
- 6 Packages, facilitating subjects and ‘keeping the options open’ (A levels)
- 7 Institutional concerted cultivation
- 8 Aim lower: leashing aspirations and internalising notions of (in)ability
- 9 Jake’s story: a journey to reflexivity
- Conclusion
- Appendix I Questionnaire
- Appendix II Parental Standard Occupational Classification 2010 groups
- Appendix III Grand Hill Grammar careers event question sheet
- Appendix IV Vignette sample
- Notes
- References
- Index
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Schooling InequalityAspirations, Opportunities and the Reproduction of Social Class, pp. 168 - 170Publisher: Bristol University PressPrint publication year: 2024