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This chapter draws upon 28 semi-structured interviews with the fathers, mothers and one of their sons and daughters (aged 25+) in eight families living in the same poor rural community in Punjab. It develops an understanding of a pentagonal social structure – a set of five key social relations (land...

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spelling oapen-20.500.12657-547032022-05-26T02:59:21Z Chapter 7 Overriding social inequality? Naveed, Arif Education bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JN Education This chapter draws upon 28 semi-structured interviews with the fathers, mothers and one of their sons and daughters (aged 25+) in eight families living in the same poor rural community in Punjab. It develops an understanding of a pentagonal social structure – a set of five key social relations (landownership, caste/kinship, patriarchy, religion and politics of patronage) that mediate life chances of individuals in and through schooling. By interpreting these narratives using a habitus listening guide (Naveed and Arnot 2019) drawing on Bourdieu’s (1977) theory, this chapter reveals how poverty and social inequality generate a range of differentiated values, meanings and aspirations amongst families with often detrimental effects on educational decisions and strategies. Arguing against the efficacy of the ‘supply-driven’ educational reforms, this chapter points towards the apparently agentic, yet socially structured, decision-making of the poor as one of the key sites of the reproduction of educational inequality. It suggests that in the absence of wider social and economic reforms aimed at equalising economic opportunities, socially disadvantaged groups have little to gain from investing in schooling as the levels and quality realistically achievable for them do not necessarily offset their prior disadvantage. 2022-05-25T14:16:18Z 2022-05-25T14:16:18Z 2021 chapter 9780367264895 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/54703 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9780429293467_10.4324_9780429293467-9.pdf Taylor & Francis Reforming Education and Challenging Inequalities in Southern Contexts Routledge 10.4324/9780429293467-9 10.4324/9780429293467-9 7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bb 3a626404-9ef1-4ed4-9817-f4ee18ec8721 9780367264895 Routledge 22 open access
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