Amy E. Stich

Access to Inequality

Reconsidering Class, Knowledge, and Capital in Higher Education

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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 inequality.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 146
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. September 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 373g
• ISBN-13: 9780739169322
• ISBN-10: 0739169327
• Artikelnr.: 36055599

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: The Democratization of American Higher Education Chapter 2:
Class, Knowledge, and Capital in Interconnected Context Chapter 3:
Reputational Affects: Inside a Working Class College Chapter 4: Classifying
Knowledge by Hand, by Head Chapter 5: Elite Knowledge within a Non-Elite
Space: Language, Literacy and "Intertextual Habituality" Chapter 6:
Re-conceiving Democratization Appendix: A Note on Methods