Negotiating Opportunities: How the Middle Class Secures Advantages in School

by Jessica McCrory Calarco

Book Overview

In Negotiating Opportunities, Jessica McCrory Calarco argues that the middle class has a negotiated advantage in school. Drawing on five years of ethnographic fieldwork, Calarco traces that negotiated advantage from its origins at home to its consequences at school. Through their parents' coaching, working-class students learn to follow rules and work through problems independently. Middle-class students learn to challenge rules and request assistance,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190634448
• ISBN13: 9780190634445
• Release Date: March 2018
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"