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Family background, subject specialization and occupational recruitment of Scottish university students: Some patterns and trends
✍ Scribed by Alison Kelly
- Book ID
- 104648205
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 1976
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 631 KB
- Volume
- 5
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0018-1560
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✦ Synopsis
University entrants from different social backgrounds tend to specialize in different subjects at university. Self-recruitment operates to a large extent in the ancient professions of medicine, dentistry and law, and few working class students enter these faculties. Self-recruitment of male students to engineering, business, farming and to a lesser extent teaching, is also evident. Working class university entrants frequently specialize in education or engineering. Comparisons with data from earlier years show little change since the 1930s in occupational recruitment patterns at Scottish universities.