Education and the middle classes: Against reductionism in educational theory and research

British Journal of Educational Studies

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 37-55

  Beck, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cultural arbitrary; Cultural class analysis; lites; Moralism; Symbolic violence

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847216561     PISSN: 00071005     EISSN: 14678527     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8527.2007.00361.x     Document Type: Review

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