Unequal Choices - Yang Va Lor

Unequal Choices

How Social Class Shapes Where High-Achieving Students Apply to College

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
156 Seiten
2023
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-1-9788-2704-2 (ISBN)
32,40 inkl. MwSt
Few highly able, socioeconomically disadvantaged students apply to selective institutions. In Unequal Choices, Yang Va Lor examines the college application choices of high-achieving students, looking closely at the ways the larger contexts of family, school, and community influence their decisions.
High-achieving students from socioeconomically disadvantaged backgrounds are more likely to end up at less selective institutions compared to their socioeconomically advantaged peers with similar academic qualifications. A key reason for this is that few highly able, socioeconomically disadvantaged students apply to selective institutions in the first place. In Unequal Choices, Yang Va Lor examines the college application choices of high-achieving students, looking closely at the ways the larger contexts of family, school, and community influence their decisions. For students today, contexts like high schools and college preparation programs shape the type of colleges that they deem appropriate, while family upbringing and personal experiences influence how far from home students imagine they can apply to college. Additionally, several mechanisms reinforce the reproduction of social inequality, showing how institutions and families of the middle and upper-middle class work to procure advantages by cultivating dispositions among their children for specific types of higher education opportunities.

YANG VA LOR is an assistant teaching professor in the department of sociology at the University of California, Merced.

Introduction

Frames of College Attendance

Frames of College Preparation

Schemas of Colleges

Narratives of Interdependence and Independence

Conclusion

Acknowledgments

References

Index

 

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 1 table
Verlagsort New Brunswick NJ
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 36 g
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Didaktik
Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Erwachsenenbildung
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Makrosoziologie
ISBN-10 1-9788-2704-0 / 1978827040
ISBN-13 978-1-9788-2704-2 / 9781978827042
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