Parents' Social and Cultural Capital: One Parent Group's Influence on Student Engagement in an Upper Middle Class High School

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kwanjai Vongprateep
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Student Engagement ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Social And Cultural Capital ◽  
Upper Middle Class

Strategies of Engagement

2016 ◽  
pp. 213-235
Author(s):  
Kitty Fortner ◽  
Jose W. Lalas
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
At Risk ◽  
Parent Involvement ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Students Of Color ◽  
At Risk Students ◽  
Academic Growth ◽  
Advisory Group ◽  
Parent Group ◽  
Upper Middle Class

School, parent involvement, and at-risk students do not always make a winning combination. However, for the students at Mountain View High School, things were different. Strategies used by the Mountain View Parent Advisory Group helped to transform education for students of color who participated in their program. This chapter follows a study at a high school located in an upper/upper middle-class neighborhood where barriers to academic growth were considered addressed. However, there was a pocket of students of color who were not being successful academically. Strategies used by a parent group to help re-engage at-risk students, raise their GPAs, and redirect their future towards success are highlighted. Understanding that these strategies can be initiated by any group of parents or teachers provides promise for at-risk students, parents, and schools.

scholarly journals The imperative of images: construction of affinities through the cuse of digital media

Cadernos Pagu ◽  
2015 ◽  
pp. 91-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iara Beleli
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Sexual Relationships ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Social And Cultural Capital ◽  
Heterosexual Women ◽  
The City ◽  
Selection Of

Based upon ethnographic research conducted in relationship sites and applications used by people seeking affective/sexual relationships, the present article analyzes how digital media has been incorporated into the daily lives of heterosexual women aged 35-48, understood to be "independent" and "middle class" and residing in the city of São Paulo, Brazil. Autonomy, liberty and affinity are recurrent terms in the narratives of these women, leading us to questions regarding what is involved in their choice of partners whose affinities are described in terms of their similarities with the women's levels of social and cultural capital. These affinities are initially perceived through the digital circulation of photos, which are read not only according to the physical appearance of their subjects, but also according to their surroundings - objects and landscapes - which provoke the imagination with regards to the subjects' "lifestyles". Looking at the play of these new dynamics, I seek to understand how differences (in terms of class, generation, race/color, localization, etc.) operate in women's selection of partners.

scholarly journals MEDIA REPRESENTATIONS of the NOUVEAUX RICHES and the CULTURAL CONSTITUTION of the GLOBAL MIDDLE CLASS

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-47
Author(s):  
Jennifer Smith Maguire
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
Symbolic Boundaries ◽  
Media Frames ◽  
Global Circulation ◽  
Global Middle Class ◽  
The Media ◽  
Upper Middle Class

The article offers a distinctive account of how the nouveaux riches serve as an anchor for a range of upper- middle- class ambivalences and anxieties associated with transformations of capitalism and shifting global hierarchies. Reflecting the long- term association of middle- class symbolic boundaries with notions of refinement and respectability, it examines how the discourse of civility shapes how the nouveaux riches are represented to the upper middle class, identifying a number of recurrent media frames and narrative tropes related to vulgarity, civility, and order. The author argues that these representations play a central role in the reproduction of the Western professional middle class, and in the cultural constitution of a global middle class — professional, affluent, urban, and affiliated by an aesthetic regime of civility that transcends national borders. The findings underline the significance of representations of the new super- rich as devices through which the media accomplish the global circulation of an upper- middle- class repertoire of cultural capital, which is used both to police shifting class boundaries and to establish a legitimate preserve for univorous snobbishness.

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