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Direct linkKamil Luczaj – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2025
This paper looks at the phenomenon of upward mobility through education from a comparative and historical perspective. Pierre Bourdieu referred to upwardly mobile individuals in France as the miraculous ("les miraculés"), oblates ("oblats"), or, less often, defectors ("transfuges"). A difficulty with applying a theory…
Descriptors: Social Mobility, Socioeconomic Status, High Achievement, Aspiration
Vivienne J. Zhang – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2014
The numbers of Chinese teenagers studying abroad have dramatically increased since the late 1990s, and this phenomenon has received significant attention from researchers and policymakers alike. There is substantial consensus about its proximate causes -- the recent changes in the higher education landscape and the labour market in China and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Decision Making, Foreign Countries, Genealogy
