Do people make friends with those who are culturally and socially different to themselves? Friendship and Diversity explores the social relationships of adults and children living in highly diverse localities in London. The authors examine how social class and ethnic difference affects the friendships of children in primary schools and their parents. The book draws on original and in-depth conversations 8 and 9 year olds about their classroom relationships, with parents about their own and their children’s friendships, and with teachers about supporting children’s friendships at school.  Through detailed discussions of friendships, everyday multiculture, and attitudes towards shared social space, cultural difference and social class, the authors reveal what these friendships tell us about the nature and extent of social mixing and social divisions in cities with diverse populations. Friendship and Diversity will be of interest to students and scholarsacross a range of disciplines, including sociology, geography and psychology, as well as education practitioners. 
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1. Why study friendship and diversity: Orientations and Introduction to the Study.- 2.  Encounter, conviviality and the city: new directions in theorising interaction across difference.- 3. Back at school:  research methods, design and reflexive dramaturgy.- 4. The Children’s friendships: difference, commonality and proximity.- 5. Children’s agency and adult intervention: Children’s friendships through adult eyes.- 6. Extended social and spatial encounters in primary school worlds.- 7. Antagonisms, ambivalences and association: Parents’ friendships and responses to difference in everyday life.- 8. Understanding Friendship and Diversity.
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Do people make friends with those who are culturally and socially different to themselves? Friendship and Diversity explores the social relationships of adults and children living in highly diverse localities in London. The authors examine how social class and ethnic difference affects the friendships of children in primary schools and their parents. The book draws on original and in-depth conversations 8 and 9 year olds about their classroom relationships, with parents about their own and their children’s friendships, and with teachers about supporting children’s friendships at school.  Through detailed discussions of friendships, everyday multiculture, and attitudes towards shared social space, cultural difference and social class, the authors reveal what these friendships tell us about the nature and extent of social mixing and social divisions in cities with diverse populations.Friendship and Diversity will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines, including sociology, geography and psychology, as well as education practitioners. 
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“Written with exceptional clarity, the authors offer a conceptually rich and multi-layered, methodologically rigorous and highly original analysis of how the complex space between mixophilia and mixophobia is traversed and navigated in multicultural urban environments.” (Sharon Gewirtz, Kings College London, UK)“Scholars today seem more interested in hating than liking. This insightful book shows why this is misplaced. It demonstrates that in spaces of ethnic diversity, friendship practices reveal the ambivalent dynamics of sociality. The authors  ...  analyse the plural, fluid and networked dimensions of friendship, and the ways these negotiate cultural differences in an increasingly global world.” (Greg Noble, Western Sydney University, Australia)
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Draws on current debates and theoretical resources from sociology, geography and education Provides a nuanced account of the interrelationships between social class, ethnicity and place and in particular, values and attitudes towards diversity and locality Views the primary school as a social world that impacts on parents’ and childrens' social relationships
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9783319730004
Publisert
2018-06-12
Utgiver
Vendor
Springer International Publishing AG
Høyde
210 mm
Bredde
148 mm
Aldersnivå
Research, UP, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
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Biographical note

Carol Vincent is Professor of Sociology of Education, UCL Institute of Education, UK.

Sarah Neal is Professor of Sociology, University of Sheffield, UK.

Humera Iqbal is Lecturer in Psychology, UCL Institute of Education, UK.