The degree generation : the making of unequal graduate lives /

This book traces the transition to the graduate labour market of a cohort of middle-class and working-class young people. Using personal stories and voices, it provides fascinating insights into their experience of graduate employment and how their life-course transitions are shaped by their social...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Ingram, Nicola (Autor), Bathmaker, Ann-Marie (Autor), Abrahams, Jessie (Autor), Bentley, Laura (Autor), Bradley, Harriet (Autor), Hoare, Tony (Autor), Papafilippou, Vanda (Autor), Waller, Richard (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2023.
Temas:
College graduates > Employment > Social aspects.
College graduates > Employment.
Graduate students > Employment.
EDUCATION / Higher.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front Cover
  • The Degree Generation: The Making of Unequal Graduate Lives
  • Copyright information
  • Table of Contents
  • List of Tables
  • About the Authors
  • Foreword
  • 1 Graduate Success and Graduate Lives
  • Introduction
  • Constructions of graduate success
  • Graduate outcomes and employability within the UK higher education policy landscape
  • Aspirations and social mobility: bright futures and broken dreams
  • Conceptualizing decision making and future planning
  • Symbolic recognition and conversion of capitals on the labour market
  • Overview of the chapters in the book
  • Chapter 2: Moving on Up: Researching the Lives and Careers of Young Graduates
  • Chapter 3: London Calling: Being Mobile and Mobilizing Capitals
  • Chapter 4: 'There's No Place Like Home': Graduate Mobilities and Spatial Belonging
  • Chapter 5: Jobs for the Boys? Gender, Capital and Male-Dominated Fields
  • Chapter 6: Intersections of Class and Gender in the Making of 'Top Boys' in the Finance Sector
  • Chapter 7: Following Dreams and Temporary Escapes: The Impacts of Cruel Optimism
  • Chapter 8: Lucky Breaks? Unplanned Graduate Pathways and Fateful Outcomes
  • Chapter 9: Conclusion: The Making of Graduate Lives
  • References
  • 2 Moving on Up: Researching the Lives and Careers of Young Graduates
  • Introduction
  • Following participants from working-class and middle-class backgrounds
  • Data collection and analysis
  • The wider context of the data
  • References
  • 3 London Calling: Being Mobile and Mobilizing Capitals
  • Introduction
  • Who is London calling? Evidence from the DLHE
  • Privilege and proximity: belonging to the elite metropolitan vortex
  • Fitting and not fitting in: the making and not making of a life and career in London
  • Conclusion
  • Elliot: complex mobilities and mapping a future of his own creation
  • Home, imagined futures and attachment to mobility: the social milieu of home
  • Creating a route to a desired career future
  • Class journeys and divergent meanings of home and mobility
  • Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
  • 5 Jobs for the Boys? Gender, Capital and Male-Dominated Fields
  • Introduction
  • Different gender, different career aspirations and outcomes
  • The (gendered) field of engineering
  • 'Engineering capital': symbolically recognized capital in the engineering field

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