Trends by Social Class and Gender in Access to Higher Education in Britain

Egerton, Muriel; Halsey, A. H.

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“…At the same time, children of managerial or professional families in the U.K. have an advantage over lower socioeconomic groups in access to postsecondary education. British youth who are from a lower socioeconomic background are more likely to enter nursing and education colleges while those from higher socioeconomic backgrounds, as determined by father's occupation, are more likely to enter university (Egerton and Halsey, 1993). It is interesting to see differences relative to courses of study.…”

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Correlates of alcohol, tobacco and marijuana use among Scottish postsecondary helping-profession students.

Engs

Teijlingen²

1997

J. Stud. Alcohol

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When in the collection and within a category, click on "title" to see all items in alphabetical order. The CollectionThis document is part of a collection that serves two purposes. First, it is a digital archive for a sampling of unpublished documents, presentations, questionnaires and limited publications resulting from over forty years of research. Second, it is a public archive for data on college student drinking patterns on the national and international level collected for over 20 years. Research topics by Dr. Engs have included the exploration of hypotheses concerning the determinants of behaviors such as student drinking patterns; models that have examine the etiology of cycles of prohibition and temperance movements, origins of western European drinking cultures (attitudes and behaviors concerning alcohol) from antiquity, eugenics, Progressive Era, and other social reform movements with moral overtones-Clean Living Movements; biographies of health and social reformers including Upton Sinclair; and oral histories of elderly monks. Indiana University Archives

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Correlates of alcohol, tobacco and marijuana use among Scottish postsecondary helping-profession students.

Engs

Teijlingen²

1997

J. Stud. Alcohol

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“…Extensive research in England has demonstrated the myriad ways in which class background shapes educational experience (e.g., Archer & Hutchings, 2000;Bufton, 2003;Egerton & Halsey, 1993;Hesketh, 1999). Reay, David, and Ball (2005) demonstrated the systematic ways in which class, race, and gender shape students' "degrees of choice" with respect to higher education.…”

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Social Class and Belonging: Implications for College Adjustment

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Long²

2007

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This study addressed the extent to which social class position structures a sense of belonging at college, and the ways in which belonging informs adjustment to college. Among 322 liberal arts college students, social class background was significantly associated with a sense of belonging at college and was marginally related to academic performance but was not related to the quality of the experience they were having at college. Sense of belonging mediated the relationship between class background and adjustment to college.

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“…(1976, p.116) and, indeed, the enduring nature of social inequalities within the HE sector (Egerton and Halsey, 1993) would suggest that such 'transformations of habitus' are not commonplace. Nevertheless, it would seem that these are precisely the kind of changes that warrant further investigation if the social composition of universities and colleges is to be altered in any significant way.…”

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Young People's Higher Education Choices: The role of family and friends

Brooks

2003

British Journal of Sociology of Education

134

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Previous studies of higher education (HE) choice have tended to draw a strong contrast between the decisions made by young people from working class backgrounds and those of their middle class peers. This paper draws on a qualitative, longitudinal study to argue that such assumptions about social class homogeneity overlook the very different ways in which students from a similar (middle class) location come to understand the HE sector. It also suggests that while families have a strong influence on young people's conceptualisation of the sector, friends and peers play an important role in informing decisions about what constitutes a 'feasible' choice. Indeed, this paper shows how rankings within friendship groups were, in many cases, transposed directly onto a hierarchy of HE institutions and courses. On the basis of this evidence, it concludes that a two-step interaction between family and friends best explains the decisionmaking processes in which these young people were engaged.2

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Trends by Social Class and Gender in Access to Higher Education in Britain

Cited by 64 publications

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Correlates of alcohol, tobacco and marijuana use among Scottish postsecondary helping-profession students.

Correlates of alcohol, tobacco and marijuana use among Scottish postsecondary helping-profession students.

Social Class and Belonging: Implications for College Adjustment

Young People's Higher Education Choices: The role of family and friends

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