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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Devine, Dympna; Savage, Mike; Ingram, Nicola – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2012
The authors review "White middle class identities and urban schooling," by D. Reay, G. Crozier and D. James. This book focuses on the perspectives of white middle-class parents who make "against"-the-grain school choices for their children in urban England. It provides key insights into the dynamics of class practising that are played out in these…
Descriptors: Middle Class, Democracy, School Choice, Parent Attitudes
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Stambach, Amy – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2012
The author reviews three books that provide complementary and thought-provoking insights. The three books under review are: (1) "Reproducing class: education, neoliberalism, and the rise of the new middle class in Istanbul," by Henry J. Rutz and Erol M. Balkan; (2) "Technology, culture, family: influences on home life," by Elizabeth B. Silva; and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle Class, Role of Education, Social Mobility
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Nayak, Anoop; Williamson, Howard; Bjork, Mikela; Restler, Victoria; Anyon, Jean – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2012
This article presents a review of "Lost youth in the global city: class, culture and the urban imaginary," by Jo-Anne Dillabough and Jacqueline Kennelly. In many ways the "juke-box boys" would today form a stratum of the "lost youth" that Jo-Anne Dillabough and Jacqueline Kennelly discuss in their thoughtful account of young people on the urban…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Subcultures, Research Methodology, Adolescents
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Langa, Delia – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2007
Post-industrial society, late modernity, globalization --- all these are terms that appeal to a changing reality in many of its manifestations; the labor market: the family; education; gender values; ways of thinking the world, space and oneself; and so forth. In such a world of many important transformations, the construction of youth and gender…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Social Change, Social Differences, Masculinity