Selective identification, quiet distancing: Understanding the working-class response to the Nordic daycare model

Sociological Review

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 587-603

  Stefansen, Kari ^a   Skogen, Ketil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Childhood; Nordic daycare model; Parenting; Social class; Social reproduction

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650073830     PISSN: 00380261     EISSN: 1467954X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-954X.2010.01941.x     Document Type: Article

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