Class is not only amongst the oldest and most controversial of all concepts in social science,
but also a topic which has fascinated, amused, incensed and galvanized the general public …

Both Bildung and transformative learning theory focus on the transformative nature of
education. Even though they have been developed in different continents and fairly …

Education, Inequality and Social Class provides a comprehensive discussion of the
empirical evidence for persistent inequality in educational attainment. It explores the most …

This article reviews existing theory and research on political non‐participation. Spanning the
electoral, civic and social movement spheres, it critically compares the different conceptual …

This article critically examines the empirical scholarship that applies institutional habitus, a
conceptual extension of Bourdieu's theory of practice, to investigations of higher education …

In Italy, as in other European countries, students of foreign origin are over-represented in the
vocational school tracks, with relevant consequences on their limited chances of attaining a …

This article studies why middle-class parents are more involved in school than working-class
parents. From theoretical approaches developed in different disciplines hypotheses on the …

Skilled migration programs are now widespread among western settler societies, but little is
known about the recent outcomes of skilled migrants. Using a feminist framework and …

Parents vary in both their willingness and ability to pay for their children's college expenses,
yet there is little research on how adolescents' expectations of future financial support from …

How does a policy of free tuition affect student applications to universities? This article
assesses how free tuition influences applications in terms of the selectivity of the university …