Vincent, C., Neal, S.V. and Iqbal, H. (2018) Living in the city: school friendships, diversity and the middle classes. The British Journal of Sociology, 69 (2). pp. 352-371. ISSN 0007-1315
Abstract
Much of the literature on the urban middle classes describes processes of both affiliation (often to the localities) and disaffiliation (often from some of the non-middle-class residents). In this paper, we consider this situation from a different position, drawing on research exploring whether and how children and adults living in diverse localities develop friendships with those different to themselves in terms of social class and ethnicity. This paper focuses on the interviews with the ethnically diverse, but predominantly white British, middle-class parent participants, considering their attitudes towards social and cultural difference. We emphasize the importance of highlighting inequalities that arise from social class and its intersection with ethnicity in analyses of complex urban populations. The paper's contribution is, first, to examine processes of clustering amongst the white British middle-class parents, particularly in relation to social class. Second, we contrast this process, and its moments of reflection and unease, with the more deliberate and purposeful efforts of one middle-class, Bangladeshi-origin mother who engages in active labour to facilitate relationships across social and ethnic difference.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © London School of Economics and Political Science 2017. This is an author produced version of a paper subsequently published in British Journal of Sociology. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Middle class; education; families; gentrification; diversity; ethnicity |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Department of Sociological Studies (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 23 Jun 2017 13:18 |
Last Modified: | 07 Nov 2023 09:07 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/1468-4446.12296 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:118169 |