Struggling with capital: a Bourdieusian analysis of educational strategies among internationally mobile middle class families in Sweden

Figures & data

Table 1. Three categories of mobile individuals in highly skilled professions. Distribution of 18 (out of 37) socio-professional groups.

Top executives	CEOs, lawyers, senior executives in the private sector and economists in executive positions in the private sector with a yearly salary or capital income in Sweden of at least 100.000 Euros.
Upper middle class	CEOs, lawyers, senior executives in the private sector and economists in executive positions in the private sector having a yearly salary or capital income below 100.000 Euros; civil engineers, scientists with academic degrees; physicians, university researchers and lecturers; upper secondary teachers; high civil servants; art producers.
Middle class	Technicians, engineers with lower diploma; IT professionals without university diploma; middle civil servants; school teachers; cultural intermediaries; economists and managers in middle position.

Table 2. Cultural and economic fractions of the upper middle and middle classes. Distribution of 13 socio-professional groups.

Cultural fractions	Scientists; physicians; university researchers and lecturers; upper secondary teachers; cultural intermediaries; art producers.
Economic fractions	CEOs, lawyers, senior executives in the private sector, economists in executive positions; civil engineers; technicians in the private sector; middle economists in the private sector’ IT professionals. (‘Top executives’ in the first categorisation are not included.)

Table 3. Immigrated individuals and school-aged children among top executives, upper middle and middle classes, 2010–2014.

Social category	Individuals	Children in schools located in Sweden	Individual/child ratio
Top executives	196	167	0.9
Upper Middle Class	4182	766	0.2
Middle Class	3861	758	0.2
Total	8239	1692

Table 4. Attendance in three types of schools in Stockholm and Uppsala of children pertaining to three categories of skilled immigrants, 2010–2014. Percent of the category.

Immigrant category	International schools	Swedish schools with bilingual profile	Swedish schools without bilingual profile
Top executives n = 167	64	15	21
Upper middle class n = 766	16	24	62
Middle class n = 758	17	20	63

Table 5. School attendance of children pertaining to skilled immigrants in cultural and economic fractions of the upper middle and middle classes, 2019–2014. Percent of the fraction.

Fraction	International schools	Swedish schools with bilingual profile	Swedish schools without bilingual profile
Cultural fractions n = 404	8	28	64
Economic fractions n = 359	25	19	56