Social relations and school choice in Spain

The article presents the outcome of a sociological analysis of parents’ (mostly, mothers’) and teachers’ reasoning on school choice in Spain. A general discussion of parental choice, as well as a specific discussion of its institutionalisation in Spain, defines the framework of the analysis. Windisch’s (1992) typology of everyday reasoning spells out how the two parties of the choice social relation, namely teachers and parents, justify it. The conclusion states that class and gender are salient factors is school choice is to be explained in different institutional settingspeer-reviewe