Frantic Lives and Practices of Socio-Cultural Differentiation

This chapter provides evidence of a connection between parents’ cultural engagement during their childhoods and the kind of involvement they favor for their own children. Additionally, we demonstrate and describe a neat interrelation between processes of cultural reproduction and social mobility into the higher ranks of society. In other words, we see that cultural activism is inscribed in people’s biographies, in a process similar to the one described in Chap. 3 regarding the relationship between residential and school choices and socio-spatial trajectories. We contend that the practices of cultural and social activism described here are also embedded in particular social networks of family, school friends, and work colleagues, all constituting effective social bonds that help reproduce social positioning.