{"product_id":"9780415272773","title":"Class Strategies and the Education Market: The Middle Classes and Social Advantage","description":"\u003cem\u003eClass Strategies and the Education Market\u003c\/em\u003e examines the ways in which the middle classes maintain and improve their social advantages in and through education.\u003cbr\u003eDrawing on an extensive series of interviews with parents and children, this book identifies key moments of decision making in the construction of the educational trajectories of middle class children. Stephen J. Ball organises his analysis around the key concepts of social closure, social capital, values and principles and risk, while bringing a broad range of up-to-date sociological theory to bear upon his subject. From this thorough analysis, valuable and thought-provoking insights emerge into the assiduous care and considerable effort and expenditure which goes into ensuring the educational success of the middle class child\u003cbr\u003eThe middle classes are a sociological enigma, presenting the social researcher with considerable analytic and theoretical difficulties. \u003cem\u003eClass Strategies and the Education Market\u003c\/em\u003e provides a set of working tools for class analysis and the examination of class practices. Above all, it offers new ways of thinking about class theory and the relationships between classes in late modern society.","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46256230105329,"sku":"9780415272773","price":72.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0674\/5433\/7265\/files\/9780415272773_p0.jpg?v=1764995356","url":"https:\/\/shop.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780415272773","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble","version":"1.0","type":"link"}