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Any social justice agenda is bound to engage with social class. Career guidance will inevitably seek to tackle class in so far as it aims to confront and challenge injustices. Indeed, this book’s aim is to position career guidance within anti-discrimination and anti-disadvantage agendas. The book seeks to infuse guidance with empowering and emancipatory ideologies. These are noble objectives. However, the following passages will query whether career guidance is actually capable of engaging successfully in these confrontations and challenges. Maybe the true strengths of guidance lie elsewhere. This is despite the daily workloads of career advisers reminding them how heavily class-dependent young people’s life chances remain. Up to now educational reform has failed to inject greater fluidity into the class structure, not just in Britain but in all other modern societies. Life chances today are just as dependent on social class origins as at the beginning of the twentieth century. Nowadays in Britain around four-fifths of children from the top social class (higher level managers and professionals) enter university compared with around one in six from non-skilled manual homes. This particular class gap has actually widened over time (see Roberts 2001). Maybe career advisers would like to respond to this challenge, but it is not self-evident that they possess the capability.
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