Publication: When downward mobility haunts: reproduction crisis and educational strategies of Turkish middle class under the AK Party rule
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KU-Authors
KU Authors
Co-Authors
Ozdemir, Tugce
Advisor
Publication Date
2022
Language
English
Type
Journal Article
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Abstract
The gradual restructuring of the political economy of Turkey after the 1980s has changed the positioning of the middle class and the importance of its social, economic, and cultural capitals. In particular, lowering the quality of public education through systematic privatization and Islamisation has constituted a significant threat to this class' reproduction capacity. Drawing on three years of longitudinal qualitative data from parents in Istanbul, we show that this class experiences a reproduction crisis and follows a two-step strategy for ensuring their children's social mobility: capturing public schools with a middle-class school-mix and transforming them into private-school-like spaces through intense engagement.
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Source:
British Journal of Sociology of Education
Publisher:
Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd
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Subject
Education, Educational research, Sociology