UCL Discovery
UCL home » Library Services » Electronic resources » UCL Discovery

The reproduction of privilege: Young women, the family and private education

Maxwell, Claire; Aggleton, Peter; (2014) The reproduction of privilege: Young women, the family and private education. International Studies in Sociology of Education (In press). Green open access

[thumbnail of Reproduction_of_privilege_Maxwell_and_Aggleton_final-libre]
Preview
Text (Reproduction_of_privilege_Maxwell_and_Aggleton_final-libre)
Reproduction_of_privilege_Maxwell_and_Aggleton_final_libre.pdf - Submitted Version

Download (435kB) | Preview

Abstract

The paper examines processes of cultural production and reproduction among members of the elite and upper middle classes. Drawing on findings from a study of private education in England, it explores the utility of a conceptual framework to examine how practices in and across different sites may be reproductive of various forms of ‘privilege’. Three domains in particular – family, the school, and individual young women’s projects of the self – together shape key meanings and orientations informing young women’s lives. These meanings and orientations in turn connect to ‘privileging practices’, both within each domain and beyond. The paper analyses data from three young women in one of the schools studied to illustrate how the framework may be used to examine privately educated young women’s different orientations to the present and the future. Findings point to some of the processes through which class and gender privilege may be variably reproduced.

Type: Article
Title: The reproduction of privilege: Young women, the family and private education
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
Language: English
Keywords: family, private education, class, social and cultural reproduction, privilege, elite education
UCL classification: UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10018555
Downloads since deposit
42Downloads
Download activity - last month
Download activity - last 12 months
Downloads by country - last 12 months

Archive Staff Only

View Item View Item