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Horizontal and Vertical Differentiation within Higher Education – Gender and Class Perspectives
Author(s) -
Berggren Caroline
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
higher education quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.976
H-Index - 42
eISSN - 1468-2273
pISSN - 0951-5224
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-2273.2008.00381.x
Subject(s) - matriculation , higher education , class (philosophy) , horizontal and vertical , demographic economics , working class , cohort , demography , middle class , social class , gender studies , sociology , political science , psychology , economic growth , mathematics education , geography , medicine , economics , artificial intelligence , politics , computer science , law , geodesy
The study outline differences among classes and genders within higher education. Because of the expansion of places of study, higher education has lost some of its former selectivity. The matriculation of one full birth cohort into Swedish higher education was studied. The results showed that the enrolment of working‐ and intermediate‐class women had increased, while women from the upper‐middle class, also previously enrolled in higher education, had expanded their educational options becoming involved in prestigious and previously male‐dominated programmes.