ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on shift from the school to the home, in order to explore further the relationship between institutional and family habituses and social and cultural reproduction. The narratives that emerge demonstrate how educational inequalities are embedded within individual and family biographies and how they are translated into expressions of market engagements and choice. These data also reveal the levels of registration and gendered decision making that occur within different family structures. Some young people from working class families become the principal players in the choice process. The chapter discusses these different levels of engagement and considers the role of the parent as agent in the market place. The relationship between social class and entry to elite universities has been established. Social capital is acquired and transmitted through social networks and shared identities that enable access to information and resources and common values within the family.
