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Accessing Higher Education: The Influence of Cultural and Social Capital on University Choice
Author(s) -
Brooks Rachel
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
sociology compass
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.782
H-Index - 31
ISSN - 1751-9020
DOI - 10.1111/j.1751-9020.2008.00134.x
Subject(s) - habitus , cultural capital , sociology , social capital , field (mathematics) , higher education , capital (architecture) , social science , class (philosophy) , social class , social reproduction , economic growth , epistemology , political science , economics , philosophy , mathematics , archaeology , history , pure mathematics , law
Over recent years, sociologists of education have paid increasing attention to the higher education sector. They have highlighted the ways in which, despite the significant expansion in the number of university places available in many countries across the world, access to and choices about higher education continue to be strongly influenced by social class. This article provides an overview of recent literature in this field and explores how scholars have tended to explain this influence by drawing on Pierre Bourdieu's concepts of habitus and cultural and social capital.