ABSTRACT
Based on ethnographic surveys of parents from different social backgrounds in France, this article contributes to a sociology of political socialization by the school institution. Acknowledging the centrality of school in the French context, this research highlights how the institution shapes the perception patterns and political dispositions of parents. However, these processes of institutional socialization, based on school trajectories as well as on the school’s present prescriptions, are very unequal. While the parents who are better endowed and more involved in the institution tend to conform to its expectations, those from working class backgrounds are more maladjusted, which in turn feeds political attitudes of withdrawal.
Keywords
Socialisation; Politicisation; Education; School; Parents