ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the 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 chapter discusses the different ways in which class membership can enable family groups to work with school in order to facilitate and maximize university choices. Education can be regarded as a variable commodity, a 'quality' product which can be purchased in order to ensure social and cultural reproduction. Most pupils expressed the feeling that they were not intentionally omitting to tell their parents about the guidance that they were getting from school. 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. A number of studies have addressed the ways in which middle class families use 'good' schools to gain educational advantages and to reproduce cultural capital.
