Educational Upward Mobility: Practices Of Social Changes

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.

• | Author: Antonia Kupfer
• | Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• | Publication Date: Apr 15, 2015
• | Number of Pages: 193 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1137355301
• | ISBN-13: 9781137355300