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Title: Exceptional and Decent People: Mothering and School Choice in the Reproduction of Social Inequality
Language: English
Authors: Hana Hašková (ORCID 0000-0002-3708-5816), Radka Dudová (ORCID 0000-0002-1359-7710), Romana Marková Volejníčková (ORCID 0000-0003-0655-6424)
Source: British Journal of Sociology of Education. 2026 47(2):269-288.
Availability: Routledge. Available from: Taylor & Francis, Ltd. 530 Walnut Street Suite 850, Philadelphia, PA 19106. Tel: 800-354-1420; Tel: 215-625-8900; Fax: 215-207-0050; Web site: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals
Peer Reviewed: Y
Page Count: 20
Publication Date: 2026
Document Type: Journal Articles
Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Education
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Choice, Mothers, Mother Attitudes, Elementary Schools, Middle Class, Working Class, Parenting Styles, Social Differences, Cultural Differences, Social Mobility, Parent Aspiration
Geographic Terms: Czech Republic
DOI: 10.1080/01425692.2025.2590631
ISSN: 0142-5692
1465-3346
Abstract: This article explores how primary school choice varies for differently situated mothers through an analysis of interviews with Czech middle- and working-class mothers. Combining Bourdieu's theory of habitus, Foucault's technologies of the self, and the concept of intensive parenting, we examine how school choice is becoming parents' identity work in a diversified primary school system, guided by intensive parenting norms. We argue that school choice reinforces parental guidance of children towards a particular type of subjectivity (assertive and competitive, self-confident, or polite and fitting in) and contributes to the intergenerational reproduction of inequalities. We show how habitus rooted in social class influences primary school choice and explain major class-cultural differences associated with choices made by middle-class mothers. We also show how intergenerational transmission is disrupted, leaving room for mobility.
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