Going Greek: The Organization of Campus Life and Class-Based Graduation Gaps.
Social scientists have long recognized that college students from lower-income households have lower college completion rates than their more affluent peers who are attending the very same schools. Yet parsing the mechanisms through which relative socioeconomic disadvantage and privilege influence c...
| Publicado en: | Social Forces Vol. 96; no. 3; pp. 977 - 1008 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Mar2018
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