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Item Type:Journal Article
Title: Accessing Higher Education: The Influence of Cultural and Social Capital on University Choice
Author: Brooks, Rachel
Abstract: Abstract Over recent years, sociologists of education have paid increasing attention to the higher education sector. They have highlighted the ways in which, despite the significant expansion in the number of university places available in many countries across the world, access to and choices about higher education continue to be strongly influenced by social class. This article provides an overview of recent literature in this field and explores how scholars have tended to explain this influence by drawing on Pierre Bourdieu''s concepts of habitus and cultural and social capital.
URL http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1751-9020.2008.00134.x
Volume 2
Issue 4
Pages 1355-1371
Publication Sociology Compass
ISSN 1751-9020
Date 2008-00-00 2008
DOI 10.1111/j.1751-9020.2008.00134.x