Editing Social class (section)

===Education===
[[File:Guido Baccelli (con la nipote Elena) consultato per strada da un contadino, L'illustrazione del medico, marzo 1938, n.46, p. 3.jpeg|thumb|right|A physician consulted on the street by a farmer (Italy, 1938)]] A person's social class has a significant effect on their educational opportunities. Not only are upper-class parents able to send their children to exclusive schools that are perceived to be better, but in many places, state-supported schools for children of the upper class are of a much higher quality than those the state provides for children of the lower classes.<ref>{{cite book|author=McDonough, Patricia M.|title=Choosing colleges: how social class and schools structure opportunity|publisher=SUNY Press|year=1997|isbn=978-0-7914-3477-2|pages=1–2|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PHdy8ql2mM4C&pg=PA1}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author1=Shin, Kwang-Yeong |author2=Lee, Byoung-Hoon |chapter=Social class and educational opportunity in South Korea|editor1=Attewell, Paul |editor2=Newman, Katherine S.|title=Growing gaps: educational inequality around the world|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2010|isbn=978-0-19-973218-0|page=105|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tqf8ShfYk_YC&pg=PA105}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|author1=McNamee, Stephen J. |author2=Miller, Robert K. |title=The meritocracy myth|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|year=2009|isbn=978-0-7425-6168-7|page=[https://archive.org/details/meritocracymyth0000mcna/page/199 199]|url=https://archive.org/details/meritocracymyth0000mcna|url-access=registration}}</ref> This lack of good schools is one factor that perpetuates the class divide across generations.

Nevertheless, certain actions developed in schools, known as Successful Educational Actions, can avoid the continuation of this class divide, improving the outcomes of students and increasing their future employability.<ref>Grau del Valle, C., García-Raga, L., Barrachina-Sauri, M., & Roca-Campos, E. (2024). Case Study Of The Impact Of The Learning Communities Project On Increasing The Employability Of The Roma Population In Situations Of Social Inequality. International Journal of Sociology of Education, 13(2), pp. 139-156. http://dx.doi.org/10.17583/rise.14642 </ref>  

In the UK, the educational consequences of class position have been discussed by scholars inspired by the [[cultural studies]] framework of the [[Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies|CCCS]] and/or, especially regarding working-class girls, [[feminist theory]]. On working-class boys, [[Paul Willis]]' 1977 book ''[[Learning to Labour|Learning to Labour: How Working Class Kids Get Working Class Jobs]]'' is seen within the [[Cultural studies#British Cultural Studies|British Cultural Studies]] field as a [[classic]] discussion of their antipathy to the acquisition of knowledge.<ref>Willis, Paul (1977). ''Learning to Labour: How Working Class Kids Get Working Class Jobs''. Farnborough: Saxon House. {{ISBN|978-0-5660-0150-5}}</ref> [[Beverley Skeggs]] described ''Learning to Labour'' as a study on the "[[irony]]" of "how the process of cultural and economic reproduction is made possible by 'the lads' ' celebration of the hard, macho world of work."<ref>Skeggs, Beverley (1992). "Paul Willis, ''Learning to Labour''". In Barker, Martin & Beezer, Anne (eds.). ''Reading into Cultural Studies''. London: Routledge, p. 181. {{ISBN|978-0-4150-6377-7}}</ref>