Higher Education, Social Class and Social Mobility: The Degree Generation

✍ Scribed by Ann-Marie Bathmaker, Nicola Ingram, Jessie Abrahams, Anthony Hoare, Richard Waller, Harriet Bradley (auth.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year: 2016
Tongue: English
Leaves: 205
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This book explores higher education, social class and social mobility from the point of view of those most intimately involved: the undergraduate students. It is based on a project which followed a cohort of young undergraduate students at Bristol's two universities in the UK through from their first year of study for the following three years, when most of them were about to enter the labour market or further study. The students were paired by university, by subject of study and by class background, so that the fortunes of middle-class and working-class students could be compared. Narrative data gathered over three years are located in the context of a hierarchical and stratified higher education system, in order to consider the potential of higher education as a vehicle of social mobility.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxi
The Degree Generation: Higher Education and Social Class....Pages 1-19
Researching Class and Higher Education....Pages 21-32
Two Universities, One City....Pages 33-52
Getting In....Pages 53-71
Fitting In and Getting On....Pages 73-97
Getting Out....Pages 99-122
Narratives of Class and ‘Race’....Pages 123-143
Conclusions....Pages 145-158
Back Matter....Pages 159-188

✦ Subjects

Higher Education

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