"There Was Never Really Any Question of Anything Else": Young People's Agency, Institutional Habitus and the Transition to Higher Education

Autor/inn/en	Smyth, Emer; Banks, Joanne
Titel	"There Was Never Really Any Question of Anything Else": Young People's Agency, Institutional Habitus and the Transition to Higher Education
Quelle	In: British Journal of Sociology of Education, 33 (2012) 2, S.263-281 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0142-5692
DOI	10.1080/01425692.2012.632867
Schlagwörter	Higher Education; Young Adults; Adolescents; College Bound Students; Decision Making; College Choice; Access to Information; Social Influences; Sociocultural Patterns; Social Capital; Student Attitudes; Context Effect; Guidance Objectives; Student Motivation; Student Behavior; School Culture; Middle Class; Working Class; Educational Practices; Expectation; Secondary School Students; Social Differences + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Young adult; Junger Erwachsener; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung; Studienortwahl; Sozialer Einfluss; Soziokulturelle Theorie; Sozialkapital; Schülerverhalten; Schulische Motivation; Student behaviour; Schulkultur; Schulleben; Mittelschicht; Arbeiterklasse; Bildungspraxis; Expectancy; Erwartung; Sekundarschüler; Sozialer Unterschied
Abstract	International research into educational decision-making has been extensive, focusing on the way in which young people and their families assess the different options open to them. However, to what extent can we assume that different groups of young people have equal access to the information needed to make such an assessment? And what role, if any, do schools play in this process? Using in-depth qualitative interviews from two schools with very different student intakes, this paper examines the key influences that shape young people's choices. Decisions about whether to go on to higher education are found to reflect three sets of processes: individual habitus; the institutional habitus of the school, as reflected in the amount and type of guidance provided; and young people's own agency--namely, the conscious process whereby students seek out information on different options and evaluate these alternatives. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10