The More Things Change...

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The More Things Change... is written by Stephen J. Ball and published by Inst of Education. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0854736743 (ISBN 10) and 9780854736744 (ISBN 13).

This lecture examines a set of issues involved in how social class gets ‘done’ in various sites: the day-to-day processes of social reproduction within families; the discourses of public policy; the routine practices of social institutions. The author is interested in social class as a lived condition, rather than a set of abstract relationships. His focus here is on the pro-active tactics of certain families, in particular the making-up within some families of the ‘successful’ educational subject. He outlines a set of interlocking inequalities: the complex interlocking between education policy, institutional orderings and family actions. Stephen Ball concludes that, at this point in time, education policy and institutional orderings are particularly potently ‘classed’ – that in a number of respects they reflect and enhance the social and economic interests and concerns of the middle classes.