Status Inequalities: A Study of the Impact of Socioeconomic Disparities on Educational Experience
Year: 2014
Type: article
Abstract: This thesis investigates the social, economic, and psychological factors that contribute to educational success. The analysis of 20 qualitative interviews with students at an elite liberal arts college highlights the complex relationship between socioeconomic status and education. Interviewees discuss the fields they encountered and the capital they accrued as they formed a habitus that was continuously being shaped by their experiences. These factors contributed to the trajectories that students followed as they developed high aspirations and continued on to university. A comprehensive analysis of this largely social process accentuates the inadequacies of educational policy that focuses on formal rather than informal processes of learning and education.
Author: Morgan Johnstonbaugh
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2169506599