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Expanding Political Capital: Why Social Democratic Women Participated in Middle-Class Feminist Educational Organisations in Sweden c.1890-1910
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Anne Berg; Johanna Ringarp – History of Education, 2024
This article seeks to introduce a new historical explanation as to why left-wing working-class women engaged in liberal, middle-class organisations during the first wave of feminism. The article specifically deals with middle-class associations and clubs that had educational purposes. Instead of focusing on the larger explanatory scheme of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Educational History, Working Class
"'Lad" Research, the Reproduction of Stereotypes? Ethnographic Dilemmas When Researching Boys from Working-Class Backgrounds
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Rosvall, Per-Åke – Ethnography and Education, 2015
Previous research presented in this journal and elsewhere has suggested that vocational education is highly gender segregated and it is the heavy industrial sectors such as industry, vehicle and construction programmes that mainly attract boys with an anti-school attitude who are not interested in academic school work. However, there are good…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Stereotypes, Vocational Education, Working Class
Horizontal and Vertical Differentiation within Higher Education--Gender and Class Perspectives
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Berggren, Caroline – Higher Education Quarterly, 2008
The study outline differences among classes and genders within higher education. Because of the expansion of places of study, higher education has lost some of its former selectivity. The matriculation of one full birth cohort into Swedish higher education was studied. The results showed that the enrolment of working- and intermediate-class women…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Middle Class, Females, Social Class