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Choosing schools, choosing (adult) friendships: National language, progressive self-fashioning, and social envy among Brazilian and Puerto Rican elites

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  • Ramos-Zayas, Ana Y.

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Drawing from extensive ethnographic research among upper-class parents affiliated with private schools in Brazil and Puerto Rico, I argue that upper-class parents viewed school choice not only in terms of aspirations for their children but as a reflection of therapeutic, personal growth projects and forms of self-cultivation and self-fashioning to which they themselves aspired.

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  • Ramos-Zayas, Ana Y., 2023. "Choosing schools, choosing (adult) friendships: National language, progressive self-fashioning, and social envy among Brazilian and Puerto Rican elites," economic sociology. perspectives and conversations, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, vol. 25(1), pages 36-46.
    • Handle: RePEc:zbw:econso:280760
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