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Degrees of choice : social class, race, gender and higher education / Diane Reay, Miriam E. David and Stephen Ball.

Title
Degrees of choice : social class, race, gender and higher education / Diane Reay, Miriam E. David and Stephen Ball.
Author
Reay, Diane.
Publication
Stoke-on-Trent, UK ; Sterling, VA^^: Trentham, 2005.

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Additional Authors
  • David, Miriam E.
  • Ball, Stephen J.
Description
xi, 180 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
Summary
  • "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."
  • "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 Bourdieu'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."--Jacket.
Subject
  • Universities and colleges > Great Britain > Admission
  • Educational equalization > Great Britain
  • Discrimination in education > Great Britain
  • College choice > Social aspects > Great Britain
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-176) and indexes.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Ch. 1. Setting the scene -- Ch. 2. Conceptualising choice of higher education -- Ch. 3. Making a difference : institutional habituses -- Ch. 4. Parents and higher education choice -- Ch. 5. Working class students -- Ch. 6. Culture, community and choice : ethnic minority students -- Ch. 7. Illuminating the field? : information, marketing and higher education decision making -- Ch. 8. Conclusion.
ISBN
1858563305 (pbk.)
LCCN
9781858563305
OCLC
  • 56913092
  • SCSB-10561705
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library