Theorizing Social Class and Education presents a selection of writing on class analysis within sociology of education as it has evolved over the last decade both in the UK, and internationally. This book was originally published as a special issue of the British Journal of Sociology of Education.

Introduction 1. Class, gender, (hetero)sexuality and schooling: paradoxes within working-class girls’ engagement with education and post-16 aspirations 2. The moral dimension of class and gender identity-making: poverty and aggression in a secondary school in the city of Buenos Aires 3. Teachers and the emotional dimensions of class in resource-affected rural Australia 4. Social class and participation in further education: evidence from the Youth Cohort Study of England and Wales 5. White middle-class parents, identities, educational choice and the urban comprehensive school: dilemmas, ambivalence and moral ambiguity 6. Devising inequality: a Bernsteinian analysis of high-stakes testing and social reproduction in education 7. ‘It's all becoming a habitus’: beyond the habitual use of habitus in educational research 8. Working-class boys, educational success and the misrecognition of working-class culture 9. From sociological fictions to social fictions: some Bourdieusian reflections on the concepts of ‘institutional habitus’ and ‘family habitus’ 10. Between the estate and the state: struggling to be a ‘good’ mother