Internships and the Graduate Labour Market: How Upper-Middle-Class Students 'Get Ahead'

Autor/inn/en	Wright, Ewan; Mulvey, Benjamin
Titel	Internships and the Graduate Labour Market: How Upper-Middle-Class Students 'Get Ahead'
Quelle	In: British Journal of Sociology of Education, 42 (2021) 3, S.339-356 (18 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Wright, Ewan) ORCID (Mulvey, Benjamin)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0142-5692
DOI	10.1080/01425692.2021.1886051
Schlagwörter	Internship Programs; College Seniors; College Graduates; Middle Class; Labor Market; Competition; Employment Opportunities; Advantaged; Reputation; Universities; Socioeconomic Status; Family Income; Social Networks; Social Mobility; Cultural Capital; Foreign Countries; United Kingdom (England) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Berufspraktische Ausbildung; College; Colleges; Senior; Hochschule; Fachhochschule; Hochschulabsolvent; Hochschulabsolventin; Mittelschicht; Labour market; Arbeitsmarkt; Wettkampf; Berufschance; Beschäftigungschance; University; Universität; Socio-economic status; Sozioökonomischer Status; Familieneinkommen; Social network; Soziales Netzwerk; Soziale Mobilität; Ausland
Abstract	Internships have become an important means to enhance career prospects in an increasingly congested graduate labour market. This article used positional conflict theory to explore how university students from different social class backgrounds experience internships, and the implications for inequalities in post-graduation employment. One-hundred interviews were conducted with final-year undergraduates from three different class fractions at a Russell Group university (n = 50) and a Post-1992 university (n = 50) in England. This research design enabled the exploration of differences between the most socio-economically privileged students and others, independent of university attended. The findings demonstrated how upper-middle-class students at both universities were better able to mobilise family resources to progressively 'stack' multiple and 'high-status' internships, resultantly pulling away from their peers in preparing for the graduate labour market. It is argued that internships have emerged as a class strategy to 'get ahead' beyond the well-established mechanisms of elite universities and prestigious fields of study. (As Provided).
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