What is it about?
This article combines quantitative and qualitative data to illustrate parental influence on future choices of young people
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Why is it important?
While many articles focus on academic futures this one looks at young people imagining themselves an educational career within vocational sector.
Perspectives
The publication highlights that it is important to acknowledge that there is a wide range of trajectories between conventionally understood “successful” academic careers and the ones resulting “social exclusion”.
Dr Sanna M Aaltonen
Finnish Youth Research Society
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This page is a summary of: Floating Downstream? Parental Support and Future Expectations of Young People from Less Privileged Backgrounds, Sociology, July 2016, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0038038515577907.
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