Choosing schools, choosing (adult) friendships: National language, progressive self-fashioning, and social envy among Brazilian and Puerto Rican elites

Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas

economic sociology. perspectives and conversations, 2023, vol. 25, issue 1, 36-46

Abstract: Drawing from extensive ethnographic research among upper-class parents affiliated with private schools in Brazil and Puerto Rico, I argue that upper-class parents viewed school choice not only in terms of aspirations for their children but as a reflection of therapeutic, personal growth projects and forms of self-cultivation and self-fashioning to which they themselves aspired.

Date: 2023
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