TY  - BOOK
AU  - Doherty,Catherine Ann
AU  - Patton,Wendy
AU  - Shield,Paul
TI  - Family mobility: reconciling career opportunities and educational strategy 
T2  - Changing mobilities
SN  - 0415714125
AV  - HB2135 .D64 2015
U1  - 304.80994 23
PY  - 2015///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Migration, Internal
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Australia
KW  - Educational sociology
KW  - Occupational mobility
KW  - Student mobility
KW  - School choice
KW  - Work and family
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; The family in more mobile times -- Work/family/education articulations in space with mobility systems -- Making sense of mobility in family narratives -- Seeking continuity in circumstances not of our choosing -- Optimising location in circumstances of our choosing -- Movers and stayers -- Mobius markets -- Professionals' public/private dilemmas in rural service -- Families moving on to get ahead
N2  - "Family mobility decisions reveal much about how the public and private realms of social life interact and change. This sociological study explores how contemporary families reconcile individual members' career and education projects within the family unit over time and space, and unpacks the intersubjective constraints on workforce mobility. This Australian mixed methods study sampled Defence Force families and middle class professional families to illustrate how families' educational projects are necessarily and deeply implicated in issues of workforce mobility and immobility, in complex ways. Defence families move frequently, often absorbing the stresses of moving through 'viscous' institutions as private troubles. In contrast, the selective mobility of middle class professional families and their 'no go zones' contribute to the public issue of poorly serviced rural communities. Families with different social, material and vocational resources at their disposal are shown to reflexively weigh the benefits and risks associated with moving differently. The book also explore how priorities shift as children move through educational phases. The families' narratives offer empirical windows on larger social processes, such as the mobility imperative, the gender imbalance in the family's intersubjective bargains, labour market credentialism, the social construction of place, and the family's role in the reproduction of class structure"--
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