List of figures     viii
List of tables     ix
List of contributors     x
Acknowledgments     xvii
Introduction   Lois Weis     1
Thinking/living class     11
Why the rich are getting richer and the poor, poorer   Robert B. Reich     13
The continuing importance of class analysis   Erik Olin Wright     25
Behind the gates: social splitting and the "other"   Setha Low     44
The two-in-oneness of class   Wendy Luttrell     60
Reflections on class and educational reform   Stanley Aronowitz     77
Parenting class     85
Class out of place: the white middle classes and intersectionalities of class and "race" in urban state schooling in England   Diane Reay     87
Class reproduction and social networks in the USA   Fiona Devine     100
Watching, waiting, and deciding when to intervene: race, class, and the transmission of advantage   Annette Lareau     117
Are middle-class families advantaging their children?   Kimberly S. Maier   Timothy G. Ford   Barbara Schneider     134
Parenting practices and schooling: the way class works for new immigrant groups   GuofangLi     149
Schooling class     167
Persisting social class inequality in US education   Adam Gamoran     169
The social cost of inadequate education of black males   Henry M. Levin     180
Social class and school knowledge   Jean Anyon     189
Social class and tracking within schools   Sean Patrick Kelly     210
How class matters: the geography of educational desire and despair in schools and courts   Michelle Fine   April Burns   Maria Elena Torre   Yasser A. Payne     225
Playing to middle-class self-interest in pursuit of school equity   Ellen Brantlinger     243
Class, teachers, and teacher education   Greg Dimitriadis     260
Social class and higher education: a reorganization of opportunities   Scott L. Thomas   Angela Bell     273
Complicating class, race, and gender intersectionality     289
Toward a re-thinking of class as nested in race and gender: tracking the white working class in the final quarter of the twentieth century   Lois Weis     291
The ideological blackening of Hmong American youth   Stacey J. Lee     305
Schools, social class, and youth: a Bernsteinian analysis   Alan R. Sadovnik      315
Spatial containment in the inner city: youth subcultures, class conflict, and geographies of exclusion   Jo-Anne Dillabough   Jacqueline Kennelly   Eugenia Wang     329
Class and the middle: schooling, subjectivity, and social formation   Julie McLeod   Lyn Yates     347
Rereading class, rereading cultural studies   Jennifer Logue   Cameron McCarthy     363
Index     379