Social Class, Educational Attainment, and Provision: An LEA Case Study

The local residential environment is shown to be a major factor affecting the educational attainment of thirteen-year-old and fifteen-year-old schoolchildren. Its strength and effect relative to other variables, like intelligence and social class, are demonstrated via path analysis. It has a greater influence on the educational attainment of girls than of boys. Possible processes leading to both the differential and the general effect are discussed. The scale of analysis suggests that exactly where within a catchment area people live affects their children's educational attainment.

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Children, parental employment and educational attainment: an English case study

Cambridge Journal of Economics ◽

10.1093/cje/23.5.599 ◽

1999 ◽

Vol 23 (5) ◽

pp. 599-621 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

M. O'Brien

Keyword(s):

Educational Attainment ◽

Parental Employment

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Social Class and The Unequal Digital Literacies of Youth

Language and Literacy ◽

10.20360/langandlit29407 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 20 (3) ◽

pp. 26-45 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Ron Darvin

Keyword(s):

Social Class ◽

Parental Involvement ◽

Digital Divide ◽

Peer Networks ◽

Digital Literacies ◽

Class Differences ◽

The Third ◽

Educational Implications ◽

Spatial Configurations

Recognizing the importance of technology to achieve agentive participation in the knowledge economy, this paper examines to what extent social class differences between youth shape their digital literacies. Drawing on a case study of adolescents of contrasting social positions, it discusses how the material and relational differences of home environments, manifested by spatial configurations, parental involvement and peer networks, can help develop diverse practices and dispositions towards technology. By demonstrating how the inequities of digital use can lead to the unequal accumulation of cultural and social capital, this paper concludes with the educational implications of the third digital divide.

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PECREATIVITY | PEOPLE ECONOMY CITY: THE CASE OF LONDON AS A PROACTIVE INVESTIGATION TOOL

Creativity Studies ◽

10.3846/cs.2018.5505 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 11 (1) ◽

pp. 142-151

Author(s):

Giuliana Bonifati

Keyword(s):

Social Sciences ◽

Social Class ◽

Urban Environment ◽

Historical Context ◽

Radical Change ◽

Theoretical Background ◽

Urban Transformation ◽

Urban Spaces ◽

Social Fields

The current historical context is characterised by a significant change in the economic and social fields that have led to the development of the economy of creativity and knowledge. This condition has laid the basis for the rise of a new social class. This radical change in the productive paradigm has started a series of modifications to urban spaces, setting in place a rooted change in the fabric of the city.The objective of this paper is to understand and interpret the nature of the changes under way and to investigate how what occurred in economic and social fields influenced the processes of urban regeneration. Starting from a theoretical background it will examine the concept of creativity applied to economics and social sciences. Secondly, by identifying the urban environment of London as a case study, it will analyze single cases that will show the root of these practices within urban spaces. The purpose of it will be verified by the possibility of building urban transformation strategies that use creativity as the tool of change.

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The Influence of Social Class on Family Participation in Children’s Education: A Case Study

Revista Colombiana de Psicología ◽

10.15446/rcp.v30n1.89185 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 30 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Salvador R. Vazquez ◽

Patricia M. Greenfield

Keyword(s):

Social Class ◽

Los Angeles ◽

Low Income ◽

Formal Education ◽

Comparative Case Study ◽

Family Participation ◽

Middle Income ◽

Children's Education ◽

Children’S Education

Parental involvement in children’s education is commonly accepted as beneficial. However, family social class plays a crucial role in the efficacy of homework help. In a comparative case study, a low-income immigrant family from Mexico and a middle-income family in Los Angeles were observed helping their children with math homework and were asked questions about goals, tutoring strategies, and beliefs about learning. Qualitative analysis focused on two effective teaching methods: scaffolding and productive struggle. The low-income mother with little formal education provided direct help rather than a scaffold, and disapproved of hard problems. However, an older sibling with more education than her mother used scaffolding and believed that difficult problems aid learning. In these respects, she resembled the college-educated middle-income mother. The sister exemplifies how older siblings in immigrant families provide bridges to educational achievement for younger siblings. We suggest effective ways for schools to involve parents who lacked educational opportunity themselves to participate in the education of their children. How to cite this article: Vazquez, S. R., & Greenfield, P. M. (2021). The Influence of Social Class on Family Participation in Children’s Education: A Case Study. Revista Colombiana de Psicología, 30(1), 133-147. https://doi.org/10.15446/rcp.v30n1.89185

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The path from social origins to top jobs: social reproduction via education

10.31235/osf.io/r2hfb ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Alice Sullivan ◽

Samantha Parsons ◽

Francis Green ◽

Richard D. Wiggins ◽

George Ploubidis

Keyword(s):

Social Class ◽

Educational Attainment ◽

Social Reproduction ◽

Past Research ◽

School Level ◽

Occupational Attainment ◽

Social Origins ◽

Men And Women ◽

British Cohort Study ◽

Detailed Picture

This paper provides a comprehensive account of the way in which cognitive and educational attainment mediate the link between social origins and elite social class destinations in mid-life. Using the 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70), we assess the roles of a range of pathways through which educational advantage may lead to occupational attainment: cognitive development; private and selective secondary schools; school level qualifications; and higher education, including institution and field of study. Whereas past research has shown a residual direct effect of social origins on class destinations, we find that, once a sufficiently detailed picture of educational attainment is taken into account, education fully explains the link between social origins and top social class destinations. In contrast, the gap between men and women in achieving top social class positions is in no part accounted for by education.

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Far Beyond the Gay Village: LGBTQ Urbanism and Generation in Montréal’s Mile End

The Life and Afterlife of Gay Neighborhoods - The Urban Book Series ◽

10.1007/978-3-030-66073-4_13 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 289-306

Author(s):

Julie A. Podmore

Keyword(s):

Young Adult ◽

Social Class ◽

Gender Identity ◽

Inner City ◽

Urban Space ◽

Qualitative Case Study ◽

And Gender ◽

The Relationship

AbstractResearch on LGBTQ neighbourhood formation in the urban West suggests that new patterns of community and identity are reshaping the queer inner-city and its geographies. As gay village districts “decline” or are “de-gayed” and new generations “dis-identify” with the urban ideals that once informed their production, LGBTQ subcultures are producing varied alternatives in other inner-city neighbourhoods. Beyond the contours of ethno-racialization and social class, generational interpretations of LGBTQ urbanism—subcultural ideals regarding the relationship between sexual and gender identity and its expression in urban space—are central to the production of such new inner-city LGBTQ subcultural sites. This chapter provides a qualitative case study Montréal’s of Mile End, an inner-city neighbourhood that, by the early 2010s, was touted as the centre of the city’s emerging queer subculture. Drawing on a sample of young-adult (22 to 30 years) LGBTQ-identified Mile Enders (n = 40), it examines generational shifts in perceptions of sexual and gender identity, queer community and neighbourhoods. The chapter concludes with a discussion of the implications of queer Mile End for theorizing the contemporary queer inner-city.

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