social class

The Distribution of Economic and Educational Capital between School Catchment Areas in Reykjavík Capital Region 1997–2016

Berglind Rós Magnúsdóttir, Auður Magndís Auðardóttir, & Kolbeinn Hólmar Stefánsson. The Distribution of Economic and Educational Capital between School Catchment Areas in Reykjavík Capital Region 1997–2016. Icelandic Review of Politics & Administration, 16(2), 285-308. It is well established that parental income, wealth, and education substantially affects school districts. In this article, we examine differences between

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“Then it is crucial to get some external person with respectability to the meetings”: Mothering practices and collaboration with teachers and professionals to secure their autistic children’s schooling and professional services – Bourdieusian class analysis

Berglind Rós Magnúsdóttir, & Helga Hafdís Gísladóttir.  “Then it is crucial to get some external person with respectability to the meetings”: Mothering practices and collaboration with teachers and professionals to secure their autistic children’s schooling and professional services – Bourdieusian class analysis –  Netla In Iceland, social class is an understudied field of research in terms

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Spouseless foremothers: Changes in the lives of women after divorce

Berglind Rós Magnúsdóttir. Spouseless foremothers: Changes in the lives of women after divorce – Irma Erlingsdóttir, Ragnheiður Kristjánsdóttir, Sigrún Alba Sigurðardóttir og Sólveig Anna Bóasdóttir (Ritstj.), Fléttur IV – Margar myndir ömmu This chapter contains sociological analysis and historical narrative concerning the grandmothers of the author’s father. They were born around 1880, and were in

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