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Social class background and gender‐(a)typical choices of fields of study in higher education.

By employing a Bourdieu‐inspired class scheme that differentiates between classes' volume and composition of capital, and by analysing Norwegian administrative register data for birth cohorts between 1987 and 1992, this paper examines the relationship between social class background and gender‐(a)ty...

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Published in:British Journal of Sociology Vol. 70; no. 4; pp. 1349 - 1374
Main Author: Seehuus, Sara
Format: Article
Published: Wiley-Blackwell Sep2019
Subjects:
Social classes
Higher education
Educational attainment
Social mobility
Differentiation (Sociology)
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