Stefania Fucci

This paper is intended to provide some considerations on upper-class families’ educational choices, based on the results of a research carried out with children aged 9-12 years in the city of Turin. As far as it concerns its theoretical framework, the research has referred both to contributions given by the new sociology of childhood and to those on the subject of educational family practices according to social class, with significant implications for the relationship between family and school, which is often confrontational...