Class, culture, and barriers to mobility - Professor Annette Lareau | UCL IOE

Professor Annette Lareau draws our attention to the complex ways in which class-based cultural knowledge creates its own barriers.

While extensive work has documented the crucial role of material resources in social mobility, in this lecture, Annette will present qualitative research revealing the nuanced ways cultural knowledge can be consequential in mobility journeys, based on research in the USA with a racially-diverse sample of young people from different class locations.

This includes longitudinal data from two books she has written: one that highlights how young adults’ knowledge of navigating institutional barriers can have key consequences; and another that illuminates how organisations routinely made errors that thwarted the paths of refugees in Philadelphia from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

She will discuss the impact of these errors, particularly in the delivery of services, and how cultural knowledge was essential to untangling the “knots” that arise.

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