Sociology, Gender and Educational Aspirations: Girls and Their Ambitions

by Carol Fuller

Book Overview

Debate on the effects of class on educational attainment is well documented and typically centres on the reproductive nature of class whilst studies of the effect of class on educational aspirations also predict outcomes that see education reinforcing and reproducing a student's class background.

Despite a number of government initiatives to help raise higher education participation to 50% by 2010, for the working class numbers have altered...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1441152075
• ISBN13: 9781441152077
• Release Date: July 2011
• Publisher: Continuum
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"