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Direct linkEllen Bryer – Grantee Submission, 2025
Given the dramatic risks and rewards to different graduate pathways, it is imperative to understand disparities in access to the highest levels of education. This paper responds to a tension between the traditional understanding that parents' education ceases to influence children's educational trajectories after college and the more recent…
Descriptors: Correlation, Graduate Students, Masters Programs, Parent Child Relationship
Bunn, Matthew; Burke, Penny Jane; Threadgold, Steven – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2022
In this article, we draw from a recent empirical study to consider how a person's classed trajectory impacts students from different class backgrounds in higher education (HE). Students face rapidly evolving social and academic circumstances and must build reasonable strategies to navigate their trajectory from education to work. In these…
Descriptors: Labor Market, College Graduates, Higher Education, Foreign Countries
Hurst, Allison L. – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2018
In the United States, attending a selective liberal arts college is often a sign of success. Human capital theory assumes graduates from these colleges share similar outcomes, in terms of employment and further education. This article reports, findings from a national (US) survey of liberal arts college students who graduated between 2012 and…
Descriptors: Social Class, Social Differences, Outcomes of Education, Small Colleges
Argentin, Gianluca; Triventi, Moris – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2011
The focus of this paper is on the relationships between social origin, participation in tertiary education (enrolment, drop-out, enrolment at second level and post-tertiary education) and occupational instability among university graduates in a recent period of university and labour market reforms (the differentiation of higher education due to…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Labor Market, College Graduates, Education Work Relationship
Treager Huber, Carey – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Issues surrounding social class are often overlooked and rarely discussed in higher education; however, they affect students and institutions in critical ways. Although research has demonstrated that social class is a predictor of access to college, retention, academic performance, overall undergraduate and graduate experience, and college…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, Higher Education, Independent Living, College Graduates
Alea, Jamie – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This dissertation has examined English proficiency as a mediating social factor within the occupational structure of Puerto Rico. It included an analysis of the educational records of 641 students majoring in industrial engineering, nursing, education and finance of the University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez from 1998-2000. The investigation…
Descriptors: Careers, Heredity, Undergraduate Students, College Graduates
