"Class Work:" Producing Privilege and Social Mobility in Elite US Secondary Schools

Autor/inn/en	Weis, Lois; Cipollone, Kristin
Titel	"Class Work:" Producing Privilege and Social Mobility in Elite US Secondary Schools
Quelle	In: British Journal of Sociology of Education, 34 (2013) 5-6, S.701-722 (22 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0142-5692
DOI	10.1080/01425692.2013.816037
Schlagwörter	Advantaged; Social Mobility; Selective Admission; Secondary Schools; Ethnography; Social Class; Coeducation; College Admission; College Preparation; Commercialization; Higher Education; Social Stratification; Advanced Placement Programs; Course Selection (Students); High School Students; Futures (of Society); Interviews; Parent Attitudes; Cultural Capital; Social Capital; Competition; College Applicants + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Soziale Mobilität; Bildungsselektion; Sekundarschule; Ethnografie; Social classes; Soziale Klasse; Koedukation; Hochschulzugang; Hochschulzulassung; Zulassung; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Soziale Zusammensetzung; Course selection; Student; Students; Kurswahl; High school; High schools; Oberschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Future; Society; Zukunft; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Elternverhalten; Sozialkapital; Wettkampf; College applications; Studienbewerber
Abstract	Drawing upon two ethnographic studies of affluent and elite co-educational secondary schools in the United States, Weis and Cipollone spotlight the explicit "class work" of a now highly insecure middle/upper middle class, as they attempt to maintain advantage via entrance to particularly located post-secondary destinations. Affirming the notion that class position must now be "won" at both the individual and collective level, rather than constituting the "manner to which one is born," the authors track and theorize intensified preparation for and application to particular kinds of post-secondary destinations in an increasingly segmented national and international marketplace for higher education. Although the US media have taken note of such "application frenzy," little scholarly work tracks and theorizes this "frenzy" as a distinctly "class process," one that represents intensified "class work" at one and the same time as class "winners" and "losers" become ever more apparent in the larger global arena. (As Provided).
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