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ERIC Number: EJ658250
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2000
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ISSN: ISSN-0142-5692
'Bettering Yourself'? Discourses of Risk, Cost and Benefit in Ethnically Diverse, Young Working-Class Non-Participants' Constructions of Higher Education.
Archer, Louise; Hutchings, Merryn
British Journal of Sociology of Education, v21 n4 p555-74 Dec 2000
Argues that higher education is a difficult choice for English working-class students and that the advantages and disadvantages of higher education are unequally distributed among members of different social classes. Presents a study of non-participant Londoners (n=109), ages 16-30, from a range of working-class backgrounds. Includes references. (CMK)
Descriptors: Decision Making, Economic Factors, Educational Benefits, Educational Research, Focus Groups, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Social Class, Universities, Working Class
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers: England (London)
Note: British Journal of Sociology of Education is a refereed journal.