Angst voor sociale daling De functies van het particulier onderwijs

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Fear of Downward Mobility? The Functions of Private Education. In sociological explanations, private education in the Netherlands is seen as a way to avoid downward mobility. Here, explored is what parents fear when their children fail in secondary education. The professional middle-class parents we interviewed seem to be reluctant to talk about social stratification and their own relatively high social position in the social hierarchy. Considering their children's future, they infrequently use the concept of downward mobility in the "objective" sociological sense. Their main concern is not occupational prestige or income, but the fear that by lack of education their children will not have access to interesting and self-enriching work. In the second place, they fear that children will be culturally estranged from the parental environment. Though parents stress happiness more than status, their view of happiness is class-related and bound with high educational and occupational levels. 34 References. Adapted from the source document.