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Educational Upward Mobility

Practices of Social Changes
By:Antonia Kupfer
Publisher:Springer Nature
Print ISBN:9781137355300
eText ISBN:9781137355317
Edition:0
Copyright:2015
Format:Reflowable

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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.