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

TY - JOUR

T1 - The reproduction of privilege

T2 - Young women, the family and private education

AU - Maxwell, Claire

AU - Aggleton, Peter

PY - 2014/1/1

Y1 - 2014/1/1

N2 - 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.

AB - 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.

KW - class

KW - family

KW - private education

KW - privilege

KW - social and cultural reproduction

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84901656291&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1080/09620214.2014.919091

DO - 10.1080/09620214.2014.919091

M3 - Journal article

AN - SCOPUS:84901656291

SN - 0962-0214

VL - 24

SP - 189

EP - 209

JO - International Studies in Sociology of Education

JF - International Studies in Sociology of Education

IS - 2

ER -