CORE
🇺🇦
make metadata, not war
Services
Services overview
Explore all CORE services
Access to raw data
API
Dataset
FastSync
Content discovery
Recommender
Discovery
OAI identifiers
OAI Resolver
Managing content
Dashboard
Bespoke contracts
Consultancy services
Support us
Support us
Membership
Sponsorship
Community governance
Advisory Board
Board of supporters
Research network
About
About us
Our mission
Team
Blog
FAQs
Contact us
Class talk: habitus and class in parental narratives of school choice
Authors
Ai-Ling Lai
Ball S.
+22 more
Ball S.
Bauman Z.
Beverley Hill
Bourdieu P.
Bourdieu P.
Bourdieu P.
Bourdieu P.
David M.
Fish S.
Gewirtz S.
Hall S.
Harvey D.
Hoy D.
Johnson H. B.
Mishler E.
Polanyi K.
Rademacher M.
Rose N.
Samuel R.
Savage M.
Veblen T.
Weber M.
Publication date
1 January 2016
Publisher
'Informa UK Limited'
Doi
Cite
Abstract
© 2016 Westburn Publishers Ltd. This article explores how social class is linguistically negotiated and contested in parental narratives of school choice in the British education marketplace. Our study reveals prevalent yet obscured vestiges of ‘class talk’, and in doing so, unmasks ‘micro-political’ acts of status claiming. Using interactional narrative interviewing with 30 parents, we explore how inter- and intra-class differences are emotionally expressed, thus exposing the embodied dispositions of parents’ habitus and its’ subtle influence on school choice. The parental narratives also unveil a moral and political tension between the neoliberal ideal of entrepreneurial self-advancement and an egalitarian sentiment for social equality. Our study therefore challenges the neoliberal educational policy of market choice in closing the attainment gap
Similar works
Full text
Open in the Core reader
Download PDF
Available Versions
Supporting member
Explore Bristol Research
See this paper in CORE
Go to the repository landing page
Download from data provider
oai:research-information.bris....
Last time updated on 08/06/2022
Leicester Research Archive
See this paper in CORE
Go to the repository landing page
Download from data provider
oai:figshare.com:article/10234...
Last time updated on 13/05/2020
Cronfa at Swansea University
See this paper in CORE
Go to the repository landing page
Download from data provider
oai:cronfa.swan.ac.uk:cronfa50...
Last time updated on 22/05/2019
UWE Bristol Research Repository
See this paper in CORE
Go to the repository landing page
Download from data provider
oai:uwe-repository.worktribe.c...
Last time updated on 08/06/2020
Crossref
See this paper in CORE
Go to the repository landing page
Download from data provider
info:doi/10.1080%2F0267257x.20...
Last time updated on 01/04/2019