Background A global shortage of healthcare professionals calls for effective recruitment and
retention strategies. The nursing profession faces greater staffing shortages compared with …

Empirical treatments of agency have not caught up with theoretical explication; empirical
projects almost always focus on concurrent beliefs about one's ability to act successfully …

This paper re-examines the purposes of a planned and intentional parenting style–
'concerted cultivation'–for different middle-class groups, highlighting that social class …

Pierre Bourdieu is arguably the most influential sociologist of the twentieth century,
especially since the once common criticisms of his determinism and reproductionism have …

Educational and occupational aspirations have become an important reference point in
policy debates about educational inequality. Low aspirations are presented as a major …

Mental health problems among young people have increased in recent decades, particularly
among middle-class youth, a development often related to increasing achievement …

Beyond soccer leagues, music camps, and drama lessons, today's youth are in an education
arms race that begins in elementary school. In Hyper Education, Pawan Dhingra uncovers …

Class in the New Millennium paints a fresh and comprehensive picture of social class in
Britain today. Anchored in a broad repertoire of methods and pursuing a distinctive …

This paper engages with the subjective experience of 'doing'aspiration, teasing out the
psychic and social costs that accompany this as a classed process. It draws on a qualitative …

In this article, I seek to present the spectrum of contemporary family structures in Palestinian
society in Israel, focusing on those that emerge in various contexts of changes in education …