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: Jan 01, 2015
• • Number of Pages: 193 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Paperback
• • ISBN-10: 1349470082
• • ISBN-13: 9781349470082