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Way Class Works Readings on School, Family, and the Economy

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ISBN-10: 0415957087

ISBN-13: 9780415957083

Edition: 2008

Authors: Lois Weis

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Since the 1980s, the relationship between social class and education has been overshadowed by scholarship more generally targeting issues of race, gender, and representation. Today, with the global economy deeply immersed in social inequalities, there is pressing need for serious class-based analyses of schooling, family life and social structure. The Way Class Works is a collection of twenty-four groundbreaking essays on the material conditions of social class and the ways in which class is produced on the ground in educational institutions and families. Written by the most visible and important scholars in education and the social sciences, these timely essays explore the production of…    
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Book details

List price: $52.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 12/13/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 390
Size: 7.17" wide x 9.92" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English

Lois Weis is the SUNY Distinguished Professor of Sociology of Education at the University at Buffalo, SUNY. She is the author of many books and most recently the editor of The Way Class Works.

List of figures
List of tables
List of contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Thinking/living class
Why the rich are getting richer and the poor, poorer
The continuing importance of class analysis
Behind the gates: social splitting and the "other"
The two-in-oneness of class
Reflections on class and educational reform
Parenting class
Class out of place: the white middle classes and intersectionalities of class and "race" in urban state schooling in England
Class reproduction and social networks in the USA
Watching, waiting, and deciding when to intervene: race, class, and the transmission of advantage
Are middle-class families advantaging their children?
Parenting practices and schooling: the way class works for new immigrant groups
Schooling class
Persisting social class inequality in US education
The social cost of inadequate education of black males
Social class and school knowledge
Social class and tracking within schools
How class matters: the geography of educational desire and despair in schools and courts
Playing to middle-class self-interest in pursuit of school equity
Class, teachers, and teacher education
Social class and higher education: a reorganization of opportunities
Complicating class, race, and gender intersectionality
Toward a re-thinking of class as nested in race and gender: tracking the white working class in the final quarter of the twentieth century
The ideological blackening of Hmong American youth
Schools, social class, and youth: a Bernsteinian analysis
Spatial containment in the inner city: youth subcultures, class conflict, and geographies of exclusion
Class and the middle: schooling, subjectivity, and social formation
Rereading class, rereading cultural studies
Index