Desigualdades de clase y género en los horizontes de expectativas para los hijos e hijas de familias de clase media del área metropolitana de Buenos Aires

Abstract

El objetivo del artículo es discutir en qué medida la clase social y el género influyen en los horizontes de expectativas de familias de clase media metropolitana, monoparentales y biparentales, con hijos menores. El trabajo se enmarca dentro de un estudio que vincula el análisis del sentido común con las prácticas de clase alrededor del cuidado de la salud y la educación, incorporando la vertiente de análisis fenomenológica al estudio weberiano de las clases sociales. Analizamos veinte entrevistas biográficas semiestructuradas realizadas en dos etapas de trabajo de campo durante 2009 y 2013.

The aim of the paper is to discuss the extent to which social class and gender influence the horizons of expectations towards children in metropolitan middle-class families with young children. The work is part of a study linking the common sense analysis with everyday practices around health care and education, incorporating the phenomenological analysis in the Weberian study of social classes. We analyze twenty semi-structured biographical interviews carried out in two stages of fieldwork in 2009 and 2013. Articulating the social classes and gender inequalities we identify the norms and typifications expected in the generation of successors. In terms of social class, we see that middle class families making decisions foreseeing and anticipating risks or locations that are outside their middle class expectations horizons; these could be work activities, places of belonging or leisure activities. Regarding gender, we suggest that from an early age, and even before differences in academic performance and future aspirations arise, selfconcepts that associate men with mathematics and engineering and women with care and teaching are circulating in the family.