Managing the student-parent dilemma: Mothers and fathers in higher education

Symbolic Interaction

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 198-219

  Estes, Danielle K ^a  

^a SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Accounts; Higher education; Identity; Ideology; Stigma; Student parents

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955701181     PISSN: 01956086     EISSN: 15338665     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/si.2011.34.2.198     Document Type: Article

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