Enabling Environment for Learning and the Middle-Class Advantage

This chapter highlights the cultural practices tied to producing social and physical space among middle-class parents to reproduce class status. It highlights parenting practices as a critical site for producing middle-class advantage. This chapter builds on field notes and interviews from 28 respondents who identified themselves as middle class, approached through snowball sampling conducted from February through December 2014. It proposes to highlight the evolution and consolidation of a sense of spatial and social distinction (Bourdieu, 1984) towards reproducing educational success among the middle class living in gated communities in Gurugram.