Access to Inequality. Reconsidering Class, Knowledge, and Capital in Higher Education

✍ Scribed by Amy E. Stich

Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield Publishing Group;Lexington Books
Year: 2012
Tongue: English
Leaves: 155
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Set against the backdrop of democratization, increased opportunity, and access, income-based gaps in college entry, persistence, and graduation continue to grow, underlining a deep contradiction within American higher education. In other words, despite the well-intended, now mature process of democratization, the postsecondary system is still charged with high levels of inequality. In the interest of uncovering the mechanisms through which democratization, as currently conceived, preserves and perpetuates inequality within the system of higher education, this book reconsiders the role of social class in the production and dissemination of knowledge, the valuation of cultural capital, and the reproduction of social inequalities. Drawing upon the author's year-long qualitative research study within one "democratized" institution of higher education and its associated art museum, Access to Inequality explores the vestiges of an exclusionary history within higher education and the...

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