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Degrees of Inequality: Culture, Class, and Gender in American Higher Education
Ann L. Mullen
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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 prospects. Ann L. Mullen interviewed students from both universities and found that their college choices and experiences were strongly linked to social background and gender. Yale students, most having generations of family members with college degrees, are encouraged to approach their college years as an opportunity for intellectual and personal enrichment. Southern students, however, perceive a college degree as a path to a better career, and many work full- or part-time jobs to help fund their education. Moving interviews with 100 students at the two institutions highlight how American higher education reinforces the same inequities it has been aiming to transcend.
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 time to produce continued stratification in college-related experiences and outcomes... The theoretical and research-based insights generated by this book provide a useful foundation for education researchers as well as for public and institutional policy makers who seek productive approaches to reducing differences in higher education outcomes based on social background.
Laura W. Perna Educational Researcher Paints a vivid and disturbing picture of the growing class divide in American higher education.
Richard Kahlenberg Innovations blog, Chronicle of Higher Education Mullen addresses a lacuna in the evidence base: students' perspectives on their place in the hierarchy, and how they choose a university.
Ruth Woodfield Times Higher Education By comparing the experiences of students at institutions only a few miles but worlds apart, Ann Mullen underscores how American higher education perpetuates inequalities in the social order.
Angela P. Dodson Diverse Issues in Higher Education Well-researched and carefully presented... Mullen discovered that socioeconomic class continues to influence the structures of opportunity within postsecondary education as well as students' choices once they are enrolled. Her book highlights the interaction between habitus and institutional mission that results in stratified outcomes within a system of higher education formally structured to be open to all.
Karen Bradley American Journal of Sociology This book has a lot of data and information that makes it a must read for anyone who was interested in this topic. Cybertron Reviews
Laura W. Perna Educational Researcher Paints a vivid and disturbing picture of the growing class divide in American higher education.
Richard Kahlenberg Innovations blog, Chronicle of Higher Education Mullen addresses a lacuna in the evidence base: students' perspectives on their place in the hierarchy, and how they choose a university.
Ruth Woodfield Times Higher Education By comparing the experiences of students at institutions only a few miles but worlds apart, Ann Mullen underscores how American higher education perpetuates inequalities in the social order.
Angela P. Dodson Diverse Issues in Higher Education Well-researched and carefully presented... Mullen discovered that socioeconomic class continues to influence the structures of opportunity within postsecondary education as well as students' choices once they are enrolled. Her book highlights the interaction between habitus and institutional mission that results in stratified outcomes within a system of higher education formally structured to be open to all.
Karen Bradley American Journal of Sociology This book has a lot of data and information that makes it a must read for anyone who was interested in this topic. Cybertron Reviews