Cultural capital and first-generation college success

Poetics

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 245-265

  Dumais, Susan A ^a   Ward, Aaryn ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cultural capital; Education; Inequality

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952744748     PISSN: 0304422X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2009.11.011     Document Type: Article

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