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Negotiating Opportunities

How the Middle Class Secures Advantages in School

By: Jessica McCrory Calarco

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Negotiating Opportunities

How the Middle Class Secures Advantages in School

By: Jessica McCrory Calarco

In Negotiating Opportunities, Jessica McCrory Calarco argues that the middle class has a negotiated advantage in school. Drawing on five years of ethnographic fieldwork, Calarco traces that negotiated advantage from its origins at home to its consequences at school. Through their parents' coaching, working-class students learn to follow rules and work through problems independently. Middle-class students learn to challenge rules and request assistance, accommodations, and attention in excess of what is fair or required. Teachers typically grant those requests, creating advantages for middle-class students. Calarco concludes with recommendations, advocating against deficit-oriented programs that teach middle-class behaviors to working-class students. Those programs ignore the value of working-class students' resourcefulness, respect, and responsibility, and they do little to prevent middle-class families from finding new opportunities to negotiate advantages in school.

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Oxford University Press

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019063443X

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A Field Guide to Grad School

Uncovering the Hidden Curriculum

By: Jessica McCrory Calarco

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A Field Guide to Grad School

Uncovering the Hidden Curriculum

By: Jessica McCrory Calarco

An essential handbook to the unwritten and often unspoken knowledge and skills you need to succeed in grad school Some of the most important things you need to know in order to succeed in graduate school—like how to choose a good advisor, how to get funding for your work, and whether to celebrate or cry when a journal tells you to revise and resubmit an article—won’t be covered in any class. They are part of a hidden curriculum that you are just expected to know or somehow learn on your own—or else. In this comprehensive survival guide for grad school, Jessica McCrory Calarco walks you through the secret knowledge and skills that are essential for navigating every critical stage of the postgraduate experience, from deciding whether to go to grad school in the first place to finishing your degree and landing a job. An invaluable resource for every prospective and current grad student in any discipline, A Field Guide to Grad School will save you grief—and help you thrive—in school and beyond. Provides invaluable advice about how to: Choose and apply to a graduate program Stay on track in your program Publish and promote your work Get the most out of conferences Navigate the job market Balance teaching, research, service, and life

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Princeton University Press

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0691201102

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9780691201108

A Field Guide to Grad School

Uncovering the Hidden Curriculum

By: Jessica McCrory Calarco

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A Field Guide to Grad School

Uncovering the Hidden Curriculum

By: Jessica McCrory Calarco

Introduction -- Choosing a program -- Building your team -- Deciphering academic jargon -- Reading and writing about other people's research -- Staying on track in your program -- Doing research and finding funding -- Writing about your research -- Publishing and promoting your work -- Talking about your research -- Going to conferences -- Navigating the job market -- Balancing teaching, research, service and life -- Conclusion.

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Princeton University Press

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0691201099

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9780691201092

Negotiating Opportunities

How the Middle Class Secures Advantages in School

By: Jessica McCrory Calarco

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How the Middle Class Secures Advantages in School

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Oxford University Press

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Qualitative Literacy

A Guide to Evaluating Ethnographic and Interview Research

By: Mario Luis Small,Jessica McCrory Calarco

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Qualitative Literacy

A Guide to Evaluating Ethnographic and Interview Research

By: Mario Luis Small,Jessica McCrory Calarco

Cognitive empathy -- Heterogeneity -- Palpability -- Follow-up -- Self-awareness.

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Univ of California Press

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0520390652

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Qualitative Literacy

A Guide to Evaluating Ethnographic and Interview Research

By: Mario Luis Small,Jessica McCrory Calarco

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A Guide to Evaluating Ethnographic and Interview Research

By: Mario Luis Small,Jessica McCrory Calarco

Cognitive empathy -- Heterogeneity -- Palpability -- Follow-up -- Self-awareness.

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Univ of California Press

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0520390660

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9780520390669

Holding It Together

How Women Became America's Safety Net

By: Jessica Calarco

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Holding It Together

How Women Became America's Safety Net

By: Jessica Calarco

Other countries have social safety nets. The U.S. has women. Holding It Together chronicles the causes and dire consequences. America runs on women—women who are tasked with holding society together at the seams and fixing it when things fall apart. In this tour de force, acclaimed Sociologist Jessica Calarco lays bare the devastating consequences of our status quo. Holding It Together draws on five years of research in which Calarco surveyed over 4000 parents and conducted more than 400 hours of interviews with women who bear the brunt of our broken system. A widowed single mother struggles to patch together meager public benefits while working three jobs; an aunt is pushed into caring for her niece and nephew at age fifteen once their family is shattered by the opioid epidemic; a daughter becomes the backstop caregiver for her mother, her husband, and her child because of the perceived flexibility of her job; a well-to-do couple grapples with the moral dilemma of leaning on overworked, underpaid childcare providers to achieve their egalitarian ideals. Stories of grief and guilt abound. Yet, they are more than individual tragedies. Tracing present-day policies back to their roots, Calarco reveals a systematic agreement to dismantle our country’s social safety net and persuade citizens to accept precarity while women bear the brunt. She leads us to see women's labor as the reason we've gone so long without the support systems that our peer nations take for granted, and how women’s work maintains the illusion that we don't need a net. Weaving eye-opening original research with revelatory sociological narrative, Holding It Together is a bold call to demand the institutional change that each of us deserves, and a warning about the perils of living without it.

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Penguin

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0593538137

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9780593538135

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Negotiating Opportunities

Negotiating Opportunities

A Field Guide to Grad School

A Field Guide to Grad School

A Field Guide to Grad School

A Field Guide to Grad School

Negotiating Opportunities

Negotiating Opportunities

Qualitative Literacy

Qualitative Literacy

Qualitative Literacy

Qualitative Literacy

Holding It Together

Holding It Together

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