Cultural Conflict: The Implications of Changing Dispositions Among the Upwardly Mobile

Curl, Heather; Lareau, Annette; Wu, Tina

doi:10.1111/socf.12461

Cited by 31 publications

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“…This is exemplified by study of how race, networks and hiring interact to reveal multiple points in the hiring process where network factors can exclude minority groups from access to desirable jobs (see also Reskin, 1988;. This network effect also crosses national borders with students at globally leading business schools investing heavily to become part of alumni networks and the privileges they offer (Curl, Lareau & Wu, 2018;Levy & Reiche, 2018).…”

Section: Evaluation Based On Cultural Similarity Hiring Determines Wmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Organizational Reproduction of Inequality

Amis

Mair

Munir

2020

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With societal inequalities continuing to increase and organizations providing the vast majority of people with their income, we wanted to assess the ways in which organizational practices are implicated in the burgeoning of social and economic inequality. Following an integrative review of the literature drawn from across the social sciences, we found that the multiple ways in which five major organizational practices-hiring, role allocation, promotion, compensation and structuring-are enacted emerged as being central to the reproduction of inequality. We also uncovered how the persistence of these practices, and the inequality they induce, can be largely attributed to a constellation of three highly institutionalized myths, efficiency, meritocracy and positive globalization. Our analysis further reveals how, as scholars, we bear a corresponding responsibility to reconsider how we engage in research on and teaching about organizations. The implications of this for our future work are discussed.

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Section: Evaluation Based On Cultural Similarity Hiring Determines Wmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Organizational Reproduction of Inequality

Amis

Mair

Munir

2020

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296

219

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“…College students from socioeconomically disadvantaged backgrounds often face the challenge of reconciling their home and school environments and sustaining relationships with their families (Lee and Kramer 2013;Lehmann 2014;Rondini 2016). They may experience conflict with parents or siblings who are not upwardly mobile (Curl et al 2018), sometimes coming to view them as failures or cautionary tales (Langenkamp and Shifrer 2018;Rondini 2018). Having one child go through college may lessen the distance between home and school, allowing parents to more readily engage when their second child is in college.…”

Section: Siblings Family and College Successmentioning

confidence: 99%

Navigating the First Year of College: Siblings, Parents, and First‐Generation Students’ Experiences

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Although college education is a key to upward mobility, students from socioeconomically disadvantaged backgrounds are less likely to enter and complete college than their more advantaged peers. Prior literature has illuminated how cultural capital contributes to these disparities. An alternative conceptualization of cultural capital, however, suggests that it can also play a role in social mobility. In this study, we build on and extend the literature on cultural mobility by proposing that exposure to education can benefit not only individuals but also families. We examine the influence of older siblings who attended college on the experiences of younger college‐going siblings in families where neither parent has completed college (i.e., first‐generation families). We find that students rarely rely on their older siblings as sources of information and advice, except in a few instances where older siblings attended the same institution. However, both the topics and nature of conversations between parents and students differ between families with and without older college‐educated siblings. The primary benefit of having college‐educated siblings is thus related to students’ engagement with and support received from parents. These findings have important implications for cultural capital research and understanding experiences of first‐generation college students.

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“…Meanwhile, for children lacking the natural feel for the game, the newly acquired experiences can present a shock, resulting in what is referred to as a habitus clivé, a cleft habitus (Abrahams and Ingram 2013;Curl, Lareau, and Wu 2018). A cleft habitus describes the feeling of being out-of-place, of not belonging, and in some cases of being actively excluded from an environment alien to one's sense of self and socio-cultural experience outside of the school.…”

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Educational inequality and state-sponsored elite education: the case of the Dutch gymnasium

Merry

Boterman

2020

Comparative Education

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In this paper the authors examine the role the Dutch gymnasium continues to play in the institutional maintenance of educational inequality. To that end they examine the relational and spatial features of state-sponsored elite education in the Dutch system: the unique identity the gymnasium seeks to cultivate; its value to its consumers; its geographic significance; and its market position amidst a growing array of other selective forms of schooling. They argue that there is a strong correlation between a higher social class background and the concern to transmit one's cultural habitus. They further speculate on the moral implications of statesponsored elite education, both as it concerns the specific role of the gymnasium in the reproduction of social inequality as well as the curious tendency among its supporters to rationalise the necessity of its existence.

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Cultural Conflict: The Implications of Changing Dispositions Among the Upwardly Mobile

Cited by 31 publications

References 55 publications

The Organizational Reproduction of Inequality

The Organizational Reproduction of Inequality

Navigating the First Year of College: Siblings, Parents, and First‐Generation Students’ Experiences

Educational inequality and state-sponsored elite education: the case of the Dutch gymnasium

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