Upper Middle Class Social Reproduction

María Luisa Méndez is Principal Investigator at the Center for Social and Cohesion Studies (COES) and Head of the Sociology Department at Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago, Chile.Modesto Gayo is Associate Professor at Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago, Chile.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Social Mobility over Time and in Space: Ascending Residential and Social.- 3. Common Ground: On the Centrality of Residential and School Choice.- 4. Frantic Lives and Practices of Socio-Cultural Differentiation.- 5. Neither Conservatives nor Progressives: Fragmentation in the Cultural Repertoires of the Upper Middle Class.- 6. Inheritors, Achievers, and Incomers: Wrapping up a Multidimensional Approach to Social Reproduction.