How is it that some people who have achieved the greatest fame and fortune were brought up themselves in very poor circumstances? This is a question that captures the imagination. What it is that enables some people to escape from a disadvantaged background is the essence of the study reported here. The study is not, though, about those with exceptional achievements. It is simply about those who started off disadvantaged and who are doing relatively well as adults, who seem quite unlikely to suffer the same deprivations as their parents. It looks at the lives, expectations and perceptions of a group of young people who, in a variety of ways, could be reagarded as having had a "disadvantaged" start in life. In particular in assesses the persistence or amelioration of "disadvantage" as the children have grown up.
- ISBN10 1850006784
- ISBN13 9781850006787
- Publish Date 4 September 1990 (first published August 1990)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 23 September 2009
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Imprint Falmer Press Ltd
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 218
- Language English