Higher Education, Social Class And Social Mobility: The Degree Generation
by Ann-Marie Bathmaker /
2016 / English / PDF
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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.
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.
