eprintid: 10002321
rev_number: 20
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datestamp: 2010-03-24 17:20:52
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type: article
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creators_name: Vincent, Carol
creators_name: Ball, Stephen
creators_name: Kemp, Sophie
creators_id: c.vincent@ioe.ac.uk
creators_id: s.ball@ioe.ac.uk
creators_id: 
title: The social geography of childcare: 'making up' the middle class child
ispublished: pub
divisions: B14
keywords: Parenting , Sociology
note: This is an electronic version of an article published in Vincent, Carol and Ball, Stephen and Kemp, Sophie (2004) The social geography of childcare: 'making up' the middle class child. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 25 (2). pp. 229-244. British Journal of Sociology of Education is available online at: http://www.informaworld.com/10.1080/0142569042000205091
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.
date: 2004-04
date_type: published
oa_status: green
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
full_text_status: public
publication: British Journal of Sociology of Education
volume: 25
number: 2
pagerange: 229-244
pages: 16
refereed: TRUE
issn: 0142-5692
citation:        Vincent, Carol;    Ball, Stephen;    Kemp, Sophie;      (2004)    The social geography of childcare: 'making up' the middle class child.                   British Journal of Sociology of Education , 25  (2)   pp. 229-244.          Green open access   
 
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