Exceptional and decent people: mothering and school choice in the reproduction of social inequality
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01425692.2025.2590631" target="_blank" >10.1080/01425692.2025.2590631</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Exceptional and decent people: mothering and school choice in the reproduction of social inequality
Original language description
This article explores how primary school choice varies for differently situated mothers through an analysis of interviews with Czech middle- and working-class mothers. Combining Bourdieu’s theory of habitus, Foucault’s technologies of the self, and the concept of intensive parenting, we examine how school choice is becoming parents’ identity work in a diversified primary school system, guided by intensive parenting norms. We argue that school choice reinforces parental guidance of children towards a particular type of subjectivity (assertive and competitive, self-confident, or polite and fitting in) and contributes to the intergenerational reproduction of inequalities. We show how habitus rooted in social class influences primary school choice and explain major class-cultural differences associated with choices made by middle-class mothers. We also show how intergenerational transmission is disrupted, leaving room for mobility.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50401 - Sociology
Result continuities
Project
Result was created during the realization of more than one project. More information in the Projects tab.
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2026
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
British Journal of Sociology of Education
ISSN
0142-5692
e-ISSN
1465-3346
Volume of the periodical
47
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
20
Pages from-to
269-288
UT code for WoS article
001623287100001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-105022878478