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Inside the College Gates
How Class and Culture Matter in Higher Education
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2011
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To date, scholars in higher education have examined the ways in which students' experiences in the classroom and the human capital they attain impact social class inequalities. In this book, Jenny Stuber argues that the experiential core of college life-the social and extra-curricular worlds of higher education-operates as a setting in which social class inequalities manifest and get reproduced. As college students form friendships and get involved in activities like Greek life, study abroad, and student government, they acquire the social and cultural resources that give them access to valuable social and occupational opportunities beyond the college gates. Yet students' social class backgrounds also impact how they experience the experiential core of college life, structuring their abilities to navigate their campus's social and extra-curricular worlds. Stuber shows that upper-middle-class students typically arrive on campus with sophisticated maps and navigational devices to guide their journeys-while working-class students are typically less well equipped for the journey. She demonstrates, as well, that students' social interactions, friendships, and extra-curricular involvements also shape-and are shaped by-their social class worldviews-the ideas they have about their own and others' class identities and their beliefs about where they and others fit within the class system. By focusing on student' social class worldviews, this book provides insight into how identities and consciousness are shaped within educational settings. Ultimately, this examination of what happens inside the college gates shows how which higher education serves as an avenue for social reproduction, while also providing opportunities for the contestation of class inequalities.
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Copyright year
2011
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-4898-3
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-4900-3
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
202
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Chapter 01. Inside the College Gates: Education as a Social and Cultural Process No access Pages 1 - 32
Chapter 02. New Student Orientation: How Class and Culture Matter for Settling into College Life No access Pages 33 - 60
Chapter 03. At the Activities Fair: How Class and Culture Matter for Becoming Involved at College No access Pages 61 - 86
Chapter 04. Pulled In or Pushed Out?: How the Organizational Habitus Matters for Working-Class Students’ Extracurricular Involvement No access Pages 87 - 116
Chapter 05. Ahead of the Class?: The Social Class Worldviews of Upper-Middle-Class Students No access Pages 117 - 138
Chapter 06. Class is in Session: The Social Class Worldviews of Working-Class Students No access Pages 139 - 162
Chapter 07. Lessons Learned: Theoretical and Practical Conclusions No access Pages 163 - 180
Acknowledgments No access Pages 181 - 182
Appendix A: Respondent Characteristics No access Pages 183 - 188
