The Social Geography of Childcare: Making up a Middle-Class Child

Autor/inn/en	Vincent, Carol; Ball, Stephen J.; Kemp, Sophie
Titel	The Social Geography of Childcare: Making up a Middle-Class Child
Quelle	In: British Journal of Sociology of Education, 25 (2004) 2, S.229-244 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0142-5692
Schlagwörter	Child Care; Gender Issues; Middle Class; Social Influences; Social Stratification; Social Class; Employment; Opportunities; Education; Human Geography + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Kinderfürsorge; Kinderbetreuung; Geschlechterfrage; Mittelschicht; Sozialer Einfluss; Soziale Zusammensetzung; Social classes; Soziale Klasse; Dienstverhältnis; Möglichkeit; Bildung; Erziehung; Humangeografie
Abstract	Childcare is a condensate of disparate social forces and social processes. It is gendered and classed. It is subject to an excess of policy and political discourse. It is increasingly a focus for commercial exploitation. This is a paper reporting on work in progress in an ESRC funded research project (R000239232) on the choice and provision of pre-school childcare by middle-class (service class) families in two contrasting London locations. Drawing on recent work in class analysis the paper examines the relationships between childcare choice, middle-class fractions and locality. It suggests that on the evidence of the findings to date, there is some evidence of systematic differences between fractions in terms of values, perspectives and preferences for childcare, but a more powerful case for intra-class similarities, particularly when it comes to putting preferences into practice in the 'making up of a middle-class child' through care and education. (Author).
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