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Higher education, social class and social mobility: The degree generation

Bathmaker, Ann-Marie; Ingram, Nicola; Abrahams, Jessie; Hoare, Anthony; Waller, Richard; Bradley, Harriet

Authors

Ann-Marie Bathmaker

Nicola Ingram

Jessie Abrahams

Anthony Hoare

Richard Waller Richard.Waller@uwe.ac.uk
Professor of Education and Social Justice



Abstract

This book explores higher education, social class and social mobility from the point of view of those most intimately involved: the undergraduate students. It is based on a project which followed a cohort of young undergraduate students at Bristol’s two universities in the UK through from their first year of study for the following three years, when most of them were about to enter the labour market or further study. The students were paired by university, by subject of study and by class background, so that the fortunes of middle-class and working-class students could be compared. Narrative data gathered over three years are located in the context of a hierarchical and stratified higher education system, in order to consider the potential of higher education as a vehicle of social mobility.

Citation

Bathmaker, A., Ingram, N., Abrahams, J., Hoare, A., Waller, R., & Bradley, H. (2016). Higher education, social class and social mobility: The degree generation. (1). London: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-53481-1

Book Type Book
Publication Date Jan 1, 2016
Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
Peer Reviewed Not Peer Reviewed
Pages 1-188
Edition 1
Book Title Higher Education, Social Class and Social Mobility: The Degree Generation
ISBN 9781137534804
DOI https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-53481-1
Keywords social class, undergraduates, student experience, social mobility, higher education, Polytechnic, Redbrick, Bristol, education, higher education, mobility
Public URL https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/916747
Publisher URL http://www.palgrave.com/gb/book/9781137534804