'Bettering yourself'? Discourses of risk, cost and benefit in ethnically diverse, young working-class non-participants' constructions of higher education

British Journal of Sociology of Education

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 555-574

  Archer, Louise ^a   Hutchings, Merryn ^b  

^a LONDON METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

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EID: 0034365789     PISSN: 01425692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/713655373     Document Type: Article

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