This paper focuses on the problematic ways in which popular families are present in their children's schooling in cases when the latter succeed in remaining in the school system until collegiate education. In the first part I review studies which in the field of Sociology of Education and based on important empirical researches, emphasize that these cases are explained through a strong mobilization of the students' families. Further, considering other studies that demonstrate that scholastic mobilization practices do not constitute the necessary characteristic of these families, I defend the disposition to expand the investigation of socialization-fostering family practices, as I consider they may promote (other) ways in which these families can be present, by means of facilitating dispositions of school longevity.
School longevity; Popular families; Family-school relationship; Dispositions; Socialization-fostering family practices