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

by Amy E. Stich

  • Paperback
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
  • 15.3 x 22.9 x 0.9 cm

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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 book reconsiders 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.
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  • Title

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

  • Book Format

    Paperback / softback

  • Publisher

    Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

  • Published

    May 2014

  • Weight

    227g

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.9 x 0.9 cm

  • ISBN

    9780739197721

  • ISBN-10

    073919772X

  • Eden Code

    4731683

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