... their emotional involvement in their child's educational experience and success. In 'A useful extension of Bourdieu's conceptual framework? Emotional capital as a way of understanding mothers' involvement in their children's education' Diane Reay talks about the different effects of emotional involvement and also how certain forms of this involvement can lead to different outcomes, dependant on the child, and their upbringing. She also looks at the different pressures associated with different class groups. Unlike Nowotny's idea that, primarily, positive emotions generate profits for the families, Reay discovered that positive emotions could have 'negative repercussions for children' and that negative emotions could also 'spur children on academically' (Reay 2000). Reay also found that the same form of emotional capital could have a certain effect in one situation, and a completely opposite effect in another. "Anger could communicate to children that the mother had a clear expectations of educational performances that she ...

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