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In this paper, we trace a conceptual roadmap aimed at reconciling a life course perspective with the sociology of class and social inequality. We begin by presenting the life course perspective, reflecting on the central role it grants to processes of institutional regulation. Taking stock of critiques to both atomist explanations of agency and structural determinisms, we advocate for a longitudinal reading of how inequalities shape individual and collective trajectories, mobilizing concepts advanced by Pierre Bourdieu. We then demonstrate the potential of this approach to discuss how life course trajectories unfold in late modernity, drawing on recent research on Portugal. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper investigates the influence of the context of origin in the social construction process of outsourced cleaning service providers' careers. As a theoretical framework, the neo-Bourdieusian dispositional approach proposed by Jessé Souza was adopted. The methodological approach privileged the life histories to analysis the professional trajectories. The results of the research illustrate that the contexts of origin portrayed by the interviewees, characterized by low volumes of capital and social disorganization, conditioned their professional trajectories, marked by poorly qualified insertions in the labor market. Such results contribute to put in check the voluntary career approaches that emphasize the individual agency. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the effects of social class on the educational performance of young Brazilians students. Our theoretical approach in this study is based on Pierre Bourdieu's concept of social class. We opted for a quantitative methodology using the database of the Basic Education Evaluation System (Saeb) tests carried out in 2013. We used descriptive statistics, correspondence analysis and multiple linear regression. Empirical results showed the persistence of the effects of social class on academic performance, although these results coexist with the impacts of variables related to schooling, individual life story and pedagogical aspects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper proposes an approach to the identification of class ascriptions of the members of the human rights movement in Argentina. After observing a polyclassist integration of the social movement, it focuses on the dominance in its leadership and composition of members of the middle classes and sometimes more specifically of the service classes. First, some dimensions underlying the concept of "social class" are developed, and then, through different surveys, outline the composition of different human rights organizations. Finally, it is concluded that although class ascription was not decisive for the composition of the movement, it did lay the foundations for a shared political culture and for the adoption of discourse and action repertoires. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines the theoretical approaches to the persistence of class inequalities in educational attainment and social mobility. After examining them, the paper stresses their insufficiencies to explain the reproduction of class inequalities in education and social mobility, and also the possibility of social change. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: Understand the centrality of work for the Brazilian emerging social class, known as "new" middle class. Originality/gap/relevance/implications: This paper contributes academically, since This paper aims at a recent phenomenon currently under debate. Since we are talking about a class in which work remains the centralizing element of their lives and, therefore, within the organizational world, it is of fundamental importance that the Organizational Studies add their contribution. Key methodological aspects: There are few papers written about this theme, so our paper was based on the systematic review of literature. Summary of key results: The simple and superficial association among class, income and consumption does not suffice to understand the complexity that lies behind the distinction structures and separation of classes. When we perceive society as a mere reproduction of the market, in other words, though income and consumption, we are perpetuating the naturalization of overexploitation of capital that posed as an individual modifying action. The accumulation has become something so subtle in society that we do not realize that the exaltation of income and consumption as responses to social changes is frivolous and hides all the symbolic domination of capitalism. Key considerations/conclusions: We claim there isn't the uprising of a new middle class, but a new working class. For these subjects, work remains the central and transforming element of their lives, which also allows access to what was once restricted to a small amount of the population. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to reflect on the relevance of the ethnographic method to the seizure of social policies in the field of Food and Nutrition. It is based on data from a survey conducted in a community kitchen from a sorting and waste composting unit (UTC) - popularly known as "dump" - in a neighborhood on the outskirts of Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil. It is argued that the merit of this research is its traditional method, ethnography, which involves a set of concepts and procedures that will lead us to the point of view of the groups surveyed through an intensive work-site. Firstly we seek to bring some definitions and characterizations of social policies that address Food and Nutrition Security (FNS) as well as the ethnographic context; then, based on some ethnographic notes, we will try to elucidate, although initially, possible appropriations that actors do on the community kitchen and on other programs there. Without pretending to wind up the debate, at the end the discussion is in favor of the relevance of the method for a deep understanding of the directions given to social programs and to the questioning of the different logics that inhabit the context studied, allowing critically rethink the government's actions concerning FNS. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Based on interviews conducted with 19 young adults aged 30–35-years-old living in north-west England, this paper examines the features of childhood sport socialisation that typically precede high levels of leisure-sport participation in adulthood. The evidence suggests that the extent to which respondents were invested with different experiences of sport socialisation by their parents was influenced by financial and transport constraints, whether parents had themselves participated in sport, and the extent of parental encouragement. Those with the highest levels of adulthood participation tended to have two sports active parents who encouraged them to participate in leisure-sport, typically for enjoyment and the ‘love' of sport, and who experienced fewer financial and transport constraints than other parents. These respondents were also more likely, to have inherited sporting habituses and values from both parents who were in turn more able, and likely to purposively invest their offspring with different resources during childhood as an aspect of family-based leisure relationships. The evidence suggests, however, that each of the identified features of childhood sport socialisation are necessary, but not sufficient, conditions for promoting high levels of leisure-sport participation during adulthood. Finally, the article concludes that sport policies may help raise the overall level of participation among the population, but frequent, and perhaps more health promoting, participation may remain confined to a minority who benefited from the required kind of sports socialisation in their childhood families. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]