From home to the City as a way of coming and going in the development of identity: the case of medium/high class urban childhood routines in Madrid

Home has been defined as a dynamic space (POVEDA et al, 2012), which is not just part of either the public or the private space. The boundaries between these spaces become more diffuse, since digital media place the public space within the private environment. We present a qualitative study of children's routines and the use of resources that their environment provides. It was conducted with 4 children aged between 9-13, in 2 upper-class districts of Madrid. The analysis shows how they share their time between public and private spaces, how they make use of the resources they have access to, and what their homes, and in turn their families, provide to them; both offer broad access to economic and cultural capital (BOURDIEU, 1994) associated with their socioeconomic class. (LAREAU, 2002)

Children`s routines; City; Cultural Capital; Family; Digital media