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Becoming Middle Class: How Working-class University Students Draw and Transgress Moral Class Boundaries

Wolfgang Lehmann
- 05 Aug 2009 - 
- Vol. 43, Iss: 4, pp 631-647
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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...
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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...

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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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