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Upper Middle Class Social Reproduction

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This chapter presents a detailed account of the literature on class reproduction, particularly for the upper middle class. We also engage in current debates on new forms of accumulation, boundary work between the most privileged groups in society and the rest of the population, processes of reproduction of inequality and their relationship to school and residential choices, and parenting and the development of cultural practices along with particular cultural repertoires, among others. We contend that this class cannot be properly understood without understanding more deeply the ways in which these families articulate, mobilize, and accumulate various resources in the long run and in everyday life.

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    Particularly in Chile, where state subsidies are structured to allow families to choose schools and encourage schools to compete with one another.

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Méndez, M.L., Gayo, M. (2019). Introduction. In: Upper Middle Class Social Reproduction. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-89695-3_1

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