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Choices of Degree or Degrees of Choice? Class, `Race' and the Higher Education Choice Process
Diane Reay
School of Social Science & Public Policy, King's College London
Jacqueline Davies
St Bartholomew School of Nursing & Midwifery, City University
Miriam David
Dept. of Education Keele University
Stephen J Ball
Inst. of Education King's College London
This paper draws on data from an on-going ESRC project on choice of higher education. It focuses primarily on the experiences of non-traditional applicants to higher education. Although these students are not typical of the entire university entry cohort, their narratives raise important issues in relation to race, class and higher education choice processes. These `success stories' reveal important causes for concern as well as reasons for celebration. In particular, their experiences of the choice process are qualitatively different from those of their more privileged middle-class counterparts, highlighting key class and racial differences and inequalities.
Key Words: choice • ethnicity • higher education • social class
Sociology, Vol. 35, No. 4,
855-874 (2001)
DOI: 10.1177/0038038501035004004
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