'Ethnic Choosing': Minority ethnic students, social class and higher education choice

Ball, Stephen J.; Reay, Diane; David, Miriam

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“…Despite these acknowledged constraints, our two-fold contention is that the multiple answers that the analysis provided to the study's research question, are both valuable in and of themselves, almost without further discussion -and yet also deserve some further consideration because, without forcing the data, we found that Within the two factors of the struggle between community and profession some patterns of ratings might have been expected that were reminiscent of Ball et al's (2002) 'embedded' versus 'contingent' ethnic choosers of general undergraduate education. For example, the lack of family and community 'embeddedness' was indeed sometimes very negatively rated; however, this was not embeddedness in the culture of HE, but rather, in the far more specific culture of professional clinical psychology and its training.…”

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“…(Darr and Archibong (2004) admittedly collected data via in-depth interviews; however the analysis seems to have been about specific items of concern, such as having to wear insufficiently modest uniform, and to provide intimate care for members of the opposite sex.) Of the studies cited by Turpin and Fensom (2004) the one nearest to our concerns was that of Ball, Reay and David (2002) whose sociological analysis of 'ethnic choosing' in HE generated two super-ordinate patterns among minority ethnic students, each supported by a group of typical characteristics.…”

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Factors associated with choosing a career in clinical psychology—undergraduate minority ethnic perspectives

Meredith

Baker

2007

Clin Psychology and Psychoth

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Concerns have been expressed by clinical psychologists about the preponderance of white members of the profession. While studies of minority ethnic recruitment into health professions and entry into higher education have been conducted at undergraduate level, the extent to which their results can be mapped on to issues of minority ethnic choosing of postgraduate training in clinical psychology is unknown. The aim of this study is to investigate the attraction or otherwise of professional clinical psychology to potential minority ethnic applicants. Q methodology was used to identify patterns of incentives and disincentives within a series of statements about the profession and its academic subject matter. Thirty‐seven UK minority ethnic undergraduate psychology students completed Q‐sort ratings. Along with narrative descriptions of seven factors derived from analysis of the data, we present three overall categories. Q‐sort data are by design defined by positive and negative aspects, and our interpretations indicate a mixture of overall attraction in all three categories. These patterns of thinking extend what was known from previous research, and explicate something of the complexity of participants' views of clinical psychology. Within the constraints of the study's limitations, we view them as a small contribution towards an empirically based understanding of factors influential in the recruitment of an ethnically more representative workforce. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Factors associated with choosing a career in clinical psychology—undergraduate minority ethnic perspectives

Meredith

Baker

2007

Clin Psychology and Psychoth

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“…Moreover, while students may not always fully recognise the nature of class-based stratification that characterises contemporary higher education, they do have a clear awareness of the existence of divisions and of the fact that their own circumstances are not shared universally among the student body. Peer interactions are shaped by such divisions and the language of class is frequently invoked by students as an explanation for differential experiences (Ball et al 2002;hristie et al 2005;Reay 2007;Furlong and Cartmel 2009). C Similar transformations, which can also result in a blurring of class divisions, can be identified in the labour market.…”

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Revisiting transitional metaphors: reproducing social inequalities under the conditions of late modernity

Furlong

2009

Journal of Education and Work

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This paper focuses on some of the conceptual implications changes in youth transitions over the last 40 years. I argue that changes have often been exaggerated with researchers too enthusiastic to jump on theoretical bandwagons without due regard for empirical evidence. While I suggest that there are important changes that impact on the ways in which social classes are reproduced, involving a perception of increased opportunity and greater scope for individual agency, a degree of class-based convergence and illusions regarding the disappearance of class, I will argue that the new mechanisms lead to the re-establishment of very familiar patterns of socioeconomic inequality which can largely be understood by employing established theoretical ideas. While biographical approaches are regarded as useful, the continued se of social class is defended. u

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“…Research looking into ethnic minority students' choices in the United Kingdom (Ball et al 2002, Reay et al 2005 pointed at the 'ethnic mix' of the student body as a crucial factor overwriting concerns of academic prestige and educational quality. Here, ethnic minority students turned out to be most concerned with the presence of ethnic minority peers at higher education institutions, thus ethnic mix became 'a decisive factor in not considering certain universities, or types of universities, or areas of the country as possible choices' (Ball et al 2002: 348).…”

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‘Most Challenging? To Fit in with People While Remaining Myself.’ Social Integration of Second Generation Turks within the Dutch Higher Education Setting

Pásztor

2014

Sociological Research Online

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By focusing on second generation Turks in the Netherlands the paper aims to study the role of friends and peers in terms of 'fitting in' to a higher education setting. In-depth interviews with Turkish higher education students and recent graduates confirm the existence of certain 'coping strategies' which ethnic minority students employ in order to integrate into the social fabric of their university or college. Social integration is usually achieved through joining existing networks of ethnic minority students, creating new networks, or simply, keeping 'old' high school friends throughout university. However, in some cases students are willing to change their course, institution or type of study in order to improve their experience, all pointing to the high importance of social integration for many.

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'Ethnic Choosing': Minority ethnic students, social class and higher education choice

Cited by 205 publications

References 16 publications

Factors associated with choosing a career in clinical psychology—undergraduate minority ethnic perspectives

Factors associated with choosing a career in clinical psychology—undergraduate minority ethnic perspectives

Revisiting transitional metaphors: reproducing social inequalities under the conditions of late modernity

‘Most Challenging? To Fit in with People While Remaining Myself.’ Social Integration of Second Generation Turks within the Dutch Higher Education Setting

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