Degrees of Choice
Subtitle: Social Class, Race and Gender in Higher Education
Publisher: Trentham Books
Published: June 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9781858563305
Subjects: Gender studies; Higher & further education; Multicultural studies; Higher; Education / Higher; Education; Education / Teaching; Discrimination in higher education; Great Britain; Social stratification
Description: "Degrees of Choice provides a sophisticated account of the overlapping effects of social class, ethnicity and gender in the process of choosing which university to attend. The shift from an elite to a mass system has been accompanied by much political rhetoric about widening access, achievement-for-all and meritocratic equalisation."

"This book gives a full and different picture, drawing on qualitative and quantitative data to show how the welcome expansion of higher education has also deepened social stratification, generating new and different inequalities. While gender inequalities have reduced, those of social class remain and are now reinforced by racial inequalities in access. Employing perspectives from the sociology of education and particularly Bourdieu's work on distinction and judgement, the book links school (institutional habitus) and family (class habitus) with individual choice making in a socially informed dynamic."--Jacket.