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Becoming Middle Class: How Working-class University Students Draw and Transgress Moral Class Boundaries
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In this paper, the expectations and experiences of a group of Canadian working-class, first-generation university students were analyzed and the structural disadvantages in terms of economic, soci...Abstract:
This article analyses the expectations and experiences of a group of Canadian working-class, first-generation university students. I outline the structural disadvantages, in terms of economic, soci...read more
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The Dignity of Working Men: Morality and the Boundaries of Race, Class, and Immigration.
TL;DR: The Dignity of Working Men: Morality and the Boundaries of Race, Class, and Immigration as mentioned in this paper, by Michele Lamont New York: Russell Sage Foundation and Harvard University Press, 2000.
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The psychology of social class: How socioeconomic status impacts thought, feelings, and behaviour.
TL;DR: Social class differences in identity, cognition, feelings, and behaviour make it less likely that working‐class individuals can benefit from educational and occupational opportunities to improve their material circumstances, and redistributive policies are needed to break the cycle of deprivation that limits opportunities and threatens social cohesion.
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Higher education, social class and the mobilisation of capitals: recognising and playing the game
TL;DR: Using data from a longitudinal study of working-class and middle-class undergraduates at Bristol's two universities (the Paired Peers project), the authors employ Bourdieu's conceptual tools to examine processes of capital mobilisation and acquisition by students to enhance future social positioning.
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Outline of a Theory of Practice
TL;DR: Bourdieu as mentioned in this paper develops a theory of practice which is simultaneously a critique of the methods and postures of social science and a general account of how human action should be understood.
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The consequences of modernity
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a Phenomonology of modernity and post-modernity in the context of trust in abstract systems and the transformation of intimacy in the modern world.
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Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity
Ulrich Beck,Mark Ritter +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, Scott Lash and Brian Wynne describe living on the VOLCANO of CIVILIZATION -the Contours of the RISK SOCIETY and the Politics of Knowledge in the Risk Society.
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Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life
TL;DR: The power and limits of social class are explored in this paper, where the authors present a theory of Bourdieu's theory of the power of social structure and daily life in the organization of daily life.