Access to Inequality: Reconsidering Class, Knowledge, and Capital in Higher Education

Stich, Amy E.

ISBN 10: 073919772X / ISBN 13: 9780739197721

Editore: Lexington Books, 2014

Pages are unmarked, but lower corner of book suffers having been compressed and is noticeable. Codice articolo ABE-1691527358701

Riassunto:

Set against the backdrop of democratization, increased opportunity, and access, income-based gaps in college entry, persistence, and graduation continue to grow, underlining a deep contradiction within American higher education. In other words, despite the well-intended, now mature process of democratization, the postsecondary system is still charged with high levels of inequality. In the interest of uncovering the mechanisms through which democratization, as currently conceived, preserves and perpetuates inequality within the system of higher education, this bookreconsiders the role of social class in the production and dissemination of knowledge, the valuation of cultural capital, and the reproduction of social inequalities. Drawing upon the author's year-long qualitative research study within one "democratized" institution of higher education and its associated art museum, Access to Inequality explores the vestiges of an exclusionary history within higher education and the art world-two related contexts that have arguably failed to adequately respond to the public's call to democratize.

Informazioni sull?autore: Amy E. Stich is a postdoctoral research associate at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York.

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Titolo: Access to Inequality: Reconsidering Class, ...
Casa editrice: Lexington Books
Data di pubblicazione: 2014
Legatura: Soft cover
Condizione: Very Good