Access to Inequality (eBook)

Reconsidering Class, Knowledge, and Capital in Higher Education

Amy E. Stich (Autor)

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2012
148 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-0-7391-6933-9 (ISBN)

Infos

In the interest of uncovering the mechanisms through which democratization, as currently conceived, preserves and perpetuates inequality within the system of higher education, this book reconsiders the role of social class in the production and dissemination of knowledge, the valuation of cultural capital, and the reproduction of social inequality.

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Set against the backdrop of democratization, increased opportunity, and access, income-based gaps in college entry, persistence, and graduation continue to grow, underlining a deep contradiction within American higher education. In other words, despite the well-intended, now mature process of democratization, the postsecondary system is still charged with high levels of inequality. In the interest of uncovering the mechanisms through which democratization, as currently conceived, preserves and perpetuates inequality within the system of higher education, this bookreconsiders the role of social class in the production and dissemination of knowledge, the valuation of cultural capital, and the reproduction of social inequalities. Drawing upon the author's year-long qualitative research study within one ';democratized' institution of higher education and its associated art museum, Access to Inequality explores the vestiges of an exclusionary history within higher education and the art worldtwo related contexts that have arguably failed to adequately respond to the public's call to democratize.

Autor

Amy E. Stich is a postdoctoral research associate at the University at Buffalo,State University of New York.

Inhalt

Chapter 1: The Democratization of American Higher EducationChapter 2: Class, Knowledge, and Capital in Interconnected ContextChapter 3: Reputational Affects: Inside a Working Class CollegeChapter 4: Classifying Knowledge by Hand, by HeadChapter 5: Elite Knowledge within a Non-Elite Space: Language, Literacy and “Intertextual Habituality”Chapter 6: Re-conceiving DemocratizationAppendix: A Note on Methods

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.9.2012
• Zusatzinfo: 1 Illustrations including: - 1 Black & White Illustrations.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lernhilfen ► Sekundarstufe I
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Empirische Sozialforschung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Schlagworte: Anthropology • class and society • Education • education, families, and health • Sociology
• ISBN-10: 0-7391-6933-5 / 0739169335
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7391-6933-9 / 9780739169339