Degrees of Choice: Class, Race, Gender and Higher EducationTrentham Books, 2005 - 180 pages "Degrees of Choice" provides a sophisticated account of the overlapping effects of social class, ethnicity and gender in the process of choosing which university to attend. The shift from an elite to a mass system has been accompanied by much political rhetoric about widening access, achievement-for-all and meritocratic equalisation. Drawing on an award-winning British Economic and Social Research Council funded study,this book gives a full and different picture, drawing on qualitative and quantitative data to show how the welcome expansion of higher education has also deepened social stratification, generating new and different inequalities. While gender inequalities have reduced, those of social class remain and are now reinforced by racial inequalities in access. Employing perspectives from the sociology of education and particularly Bordieu's work on distinction and judgement, the book links school (institutional habitus) and family (class habitus) with individual choice making in a socially informed dynamic. The contradictions and tensions arising from attempts to expand student numbers rapidly are vividly brought alive through the narratives of prospective applications to higher education. Students are seen to confront vastly different degrees of choice that are powerfully shaped by their social class and race. |
Table des matières
Chapter 3 | 35 |
Chapter 4 | 61 |
Working class students | 83 |
Conclusion | 159 |
References | 165 |
| 177 | |
Expressions et termes fréquents
academic advice apply argue Bangladeshi Cambridge careers cent chapter choice process choices of higher choosing class FE student class fractions concept contingent choosers contrast cultural capital decision degree educa elite universities established middle class ethnic minority students ethnic mix experience familial and institutional familial habitus father FE college feel FFEC field of higher friends GCSEs gender going to university higher education applicants higher education choice impact individual inequalities institutional habitus interview involvement league tables levels London look mature students middle class families middle class mother middle class student Modood narratives Oxbridge Oxford parents particular private schools prospectuses Rachel Brooks rational choice theory Reay relation relationship sample sector sense sity sixth form social capital social class Sociology sort talked things tion Trinity Hall UCAS wanted to go white middle class white working class widening participation young