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Educational Upward Mobility

Practices of Social Changes

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  • © 2015

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  1. Antonia Kupfer
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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction

    • Antonia Kupfer
    Pages 1-2

  3. Research Literature on Educational Upward Mobility

    • Antonia Kupfer
    Pages 3-28

  4. Theoretical Perspective

    • Antonia Kupfer
    Pages 29-41

  5. Study Methodology

    • Antonia Kupfer
    Pages 42-55

  6. Social Contexts Enabling Educational Upward Mobility

    • Antonia Kupfer
    Pages 56-164

  7. Summary and Conclusions

    • Antonia Kupfer
    Pages 165-167

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 168-184
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What enables the few working-class people who enter higher education to achieve against the odds? This book offers answers by comparing social contexts, educational institutions and policies in Austria and England to demonstrate a surprising number of similarities behind those who succeed using Bourdieu's concept of habitus.

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“Educational Upward Mobility by Antonia Kupfer is a thought provoking monograph of international comparative research. … Kupfer’s scholarship examines the structural dimensions which inform how working-class people become aspirational. … essential reading for scholars interested in social mobility and the formation of aspirations.” (Garth Stahl, British Journal of Educational Studies, Vol. 65 (1), 2017)

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Antonia Kupfer is Professor of Macrosociology at the Technical University Dresden, Germany.

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