Educational Upward Mobility: Practices of Social Changes

By Antonia Kupfer

Book Overview

What enables the few working-class people who enter higher education to achieve against the odds? This book offers answers by comparing social contexts, educational institutions and policies in Austria and England to demonstrate a surprising number of similarities behind those who succeed using Bourdieu's concept of habitus.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349470082
• ISBN13: 9781349470082
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"