No Ivies, Oxbridge, or Grandes Écoles: Constructing Distinctions in University Choice

Autor/in	Baker, Jayne
Titel	No Ivies, Oxbridge, or Grandes Écoles: Constructing Distinctions in University Choice
Quelle	In: British Journal of Sociology of Education, 35 (2014) 6, S.914-932 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0142-5692
DOI	10.1080/01425692.2013.814530
Schlagwörter	College Choice; Institutional Characteristics; Reputation; School Effectiveness; Advantaged; Socioeconomic Status; Higher Education; Context Effect; Attribution Theory; Ethnography; Selective Admission; Private Schools; High School Students; Single Sex Schools; Participant Observation; Interviews; Counselor Attitudes; Student Attitudes; Selection Criteria; Foreign Countries; Canada + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Studienortwahl; Schuleffizienz; Socio-economic status; Sozioökonomischer Status; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Ethnografie; Bildungsselektion; Private school; Privatschule; High school; High schools; Student; Students; Oberschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Single-sex schools; Single-sex classes; Single sex classes; Getrenntgeschlechtliche Erziehung; Schule; Teilnehmende Beobachtung; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Schülerverhalten; Selection criterion; Auslesekriterium; Ausland; Kanada
Abstract	Although we know a great deal about college choice in nations such as the United States, we know considerably less about how college choice operates in settings lacking well-defined hierarchies between higher education institutions. In the United States, the United Kingdom, and France, students from high socio-economic status backgrounds are over-represented in the Ivy League, Oxbridge, and grandes écoles, respectively. In nations without these hierarchies, how do privileged families distinguish between very similar institutions? Using the example of Canada, notable for its relative institutional flatness, I show that privileged families construct their own hierarchies and tap into established hierarchies in other nations. The data come from an ethnographic study of two elite private high schools in Toronto, Canada. (As Provided).
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