ABSTRACT
This chapter explores intergenerational reproduction of the social space by bringing front stage the practices and exchanges within families through which children's class positions are forged and maintained. It focuses primarily on a few case studies of families from contrasting zones of social space selected because they provide particularly clear illustrations of the way in which the emotion-laden minutiae of quotidian practice dovetail with the development of interests and capacities of differing worth in the contemporary misrecognition order and, therefore, the education system. The first cultural-capital-rich case, encountered several times already, is the Newcombe/Oliver household. Mr Newcombe, 63, is a policy consultant operating within the European Union. Moments of recognition are only symbols of the deeper state of play; and domestic symbolic capital is accumulated and sustained only through the constant labour of these small, seemingly innocent, everyday strategies for parental attention. A different scenario is observed in domestic fields where consecrated cultural capital is scarcer, such as the Greens'.
