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Degrees of Inequality: Culture, Class, and Gender in American Higher Education
Ann L. Mullen
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Description for Degrees of Inequality: Culture, Class, and Gender in American Higher Education
Paperback. Moving interviews with 100 students at the two institutions highlight how American higher education reinforces the same inequities it has been aiming to transcend. Num Pages: 264 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFJ; JHB; JNM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 151 x 230 x 17. Weight in Grams: 356.
Degrees of Inequality reveals the powerful patterns of social inequality in American higher education by analyzing how the social background of students shapes nearly every facet of the college experience. Even as the most prestigious institutions claim to open their doors to students from diverse backgrounds, class disparities remain. Just two miles apart stand two institutions that represent the stark class contrast in American higher education. Yale, an elite Ivy League university, boasts accomplished alumni, including national and world leaders in business and politics. Southern Connecticut State University graduates mostly commuter students seeking credential degrees in fields with good job ... Read more
Degrees of Inequality reveals the powerful patterns of social inequality in American higher education by analyzing how the social background of students shapes nearly every facet of the college experience. Even as the most prestigious institutions claim to open their doors to students from diverse backgrounds, class disparities remain. Just two miles apart stand two institutions that represent the stark class contrast in American higher education. Yale, an elite Ivy League university, boasts accomplished alumni, including national and world leaders in business and politics. Southern Connecticut State University graduates mostly commuter students seeking credential degrees in fields with good job ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9781421405742
SKU
V9781421405742
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99-28
About Ann L. Mullen
Ann L. Mullen is an associate professor of sociology at the University of Toronto.
Reviews for Degrees of Inequality: Culture, Class, and Gender in American Higher Education
In this finely crafted qualitative study of the factors that lead to social stratification between institutions of higher education, Mullen demonstrates that the meaning of a college degree varies for different kinds of students at different kinds of institutions... An important and challenging work. Choice This well-written and well-conceptualized book improves knowledge of how advantages in social background cumulate over ... Read more