Freshman Socialization: The Influence of Social Class Backgrounds on the Adaptation of Students (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Dennis Bumstead

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0365898902 ISBN 13: 9780365898900

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from Freshman Socialization: The Influence of Social Class Backgrounds on the Adaptation of Students

However, such general statements as these tend to oversimplify the com plexities of social mobility, and taken at face value they encourage the te placement of the Horatio Alger myth with the equally mythical conception of an educational meritocracy.* In fact there are filters built into the educa tional and occupational structures which function so as to control mobility and institutionalize inequality to a considerable degree. Thus, for example, students from working - class backgrounds have less chance of entering any col lege (carnegie Commission Report, If they do get through college their subsequent occupational achievements still tend to be less than the achieve ments of their counterparts from middle-class backgrounds (blair Duncan, 1968; Kinloch Perrucci.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0365898902
• ISBN 13: 9780365898900
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 51