SOC359H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: School Choice, Cultural Capital, Social Capital
Document Summary
In search of a good mix": race", class, gender and practices of mothering- byrne. Mothering involves practices and identities which are classed, raced, and gendered. Women"s descriptions of how they constructed social networks as mothers, chose schools for children, planned after school activities. Mothering practices are implicating in repeating and re-inscribing classed and raced discourses. Class as dynamic, something to be strived for. Ethnic groups hierarchized: racialized processes of exclusion and selection subsidiary to those of class, middle-classness is related to whiteness. Examines some sites of the struggles for the achievement and reproduction of class, and also race. Explores the practices of selection and exclusion which center around school choice and the social networks of mothers and their children. Middle-class white women"s accounts of the choices they make about their children"s schooling and social lives, it is essential to explore the mutually implicated discourses of class and race. Explore ways in which experiences of women were racialized and classed.
