Extra-credential experiences and social closure: Working-class students at university

British Educational Research Journal

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 203-218

  Lehmann, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857014532     PISSN: 01411926     EISSN: 14693518     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01411926.2010.535894     Document Type: Article

References (38)

1. Aries, E. and Seider, M. 2005. The interactive relationship between class identity and the college experience: the case of lower income students. Qualitative Sociology, 28(4): 419-443.
2. Baxter, A. and Britton, C. 2001. Risk, identity and change: becoming a mature student. International Studies in Sociology of Education, 11(1): 87-101.
3. Bourdieu, P. 1977. Outline of a theory of practice, New York: Cambridge University Press.
4. Bourdieu, P. 1986. "The forms of capital". In Handbook of theory and research for the sociology of education, Edited by: Richardson, J. G. 241-258. New York: Greenwood Press.
5. Bourdieu, P. 1990. The logic of practice, Cambridge: Polity.
6. Brooks, R. 2003. Young people's higher education choices: the role of family and friends. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 24(3): 283-297.
7. Brooks, R. and Waters, J. 2009a. A second chance at 'success': UK students and global circuits of higher education. Sociology, 43(6): 1085-1102.
8. Brooks, R. and Waters, J. 2009b. International higher education and the mobility of UK students. Journal of Research in International Education, 8(2): 191-209.
9. Brown, P. 1995. Cultural capital and social exclusion: some observations on recent trends in education, employment and the labour market. Work Employment and Society, 9(1): 29-51.
10. Brown, P. 2003. The opportunity trap: education and employment in a global economy. European Educational Research Journal, 2(1): 142-180.
11. Brown, P. and Lauder, H. 2006. Globalisation, knowledge and the myth of the magnet economy. Globalisation, Societies and Education, 4(1): 25-57.
12. Collins, R. 1979. The credential society: an historical sociology of education and stratification, San Diego: Academic Press.
13. Finnie, R., Lascelles, E. and Sweetman, A. 2005. Who goes? The direct and indirect effects of family background on access to post-secondary education (Ottawa, Statistics Canada)
14. Goldthorpe, J. 1996. Class analysis and the reorientation of class theory: the case of persisting differentials in educational attainment. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 47(3): 481-505.
15. Granfield, R. 1991. Making it by faking it: working-class students in an elite academic environment. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 20(3): 331-351.
16. Grayson, J. P. 2004. Social dynamics, university experiences and graduates' job outcomes. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 25(5): 609-628.
17. Lehmann, W. 2004. 'For some reason I get a little scared': structure, agency, and risk in school-work transitions. Journal of Youth Studies, 7(4): 379-396.
18. Lehmann, W. 2007a. Choosing to labour? School-work transitions and social class, Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press.
19. Lehmann, W. 2007b. 'I just didn't feel like I fit in': the role of habitus in university drop-out decisions. Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 37(2): 89-110.
20. Lehmann, W. 2009a. Becoming middle class: how working-class university students draw and transgress moral class boundaries. Sociology, 43(4): 631-647.
21. Lehmann, W. 2009b. "Class encounters: working-class students at university". In Canadian perspectives on the sociology of education, Edited by: Levine-Rasky, C. 197-212. Don Mills, ON: Oxford University Press.
22. Lehmann, W. 2009c. University as vocational education: working-class students' expectations for university. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 30(2): 137-149.
23. Moreau, M. P. and Leathwood, C. 2006. Graduates' employment and the discourse of employability: a critical analysis. Journal of Education and Work, 19(4): 305-324.
24. Murphy, R. 1988. Social closure: the theory of monopolization and exclusion, Oxford: Clarendon Press.
25. Panel on Fair Access to the Professions. 2009. Phase 1 report: an analysis of the trends and issues relating to fair access to the professions, London: Panel on Fair Access to the Professions.
26. Parkin, F. 1979. Marxism and class theory: a bourgeois critique, London: Tavistock.
27. Power, S. and Whitty, G. 2002. Bernstein and the middle class. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 23(4): 595-606.
28. Power, S., Edwards, T., Whitty, G. and Wigfall, V. 2003. Education and the middle class, Buckingham: Open University Press.
29. Quinn, J. 2004. Understanding working-class 'drop-out' from higher education through a sociocultural lens: cultural narratives and local contexts. International Studies in Sociology of Education, 14(1): 57-73.
30. Reay, D. 2001. Finding or losing yourself? Working-class relationships to education. Journal of Education Policy, 16(4): 333-346.
31. Reay, D., Crozier, G. and Clayton, J. 2009. 'Strangers in paradise'? Working-class students in elite universities. Sociology, 43(6): 1103-1121.
32. Reay, D., Crozier, G. and Clayton, J. 2010. 'Fitting in' or 'standing out': working-class students in UK higher education. British Educational Research Journal, 36(1): 107-124.
33. Reay, D., Davies, J., David, M. and Ball, S. J. 2001. Choices of degree or degrees of choice? Class, 'race' and the higher education choice process. Sociology, 35(4): 855-874.
34. Smetherham, C. 2006. Firsts among equals? Evidence on the contemporary relationship between educational credentials and the occupational structure. Journal of Education and Work, 19(1): 29-45.
35. Stuber, J. M. 2009. Class, culture, and participation in the collegiate extra-curriculum. Sociological Forum, 24(4): 877-900.
36. University of Sussex School of Education. 2006. Needs of employers and related organisations for information about quality and standards of higher education: report to HEFCE by the University of Sussex School of Education, Brighton: University of Sussex.
37. Walpole, M. 2003. Socioeconomic status and college: how SES affects college experiences and outcomes. Review of Higher Education, 27(1): 45-73.
38. Waters, J. and Brooks, R. 2010. Accidental achievers? International higher education, class reproduction and privilege in the experiences of UK students overseas. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 31(2): 217-228.