Choosing Colleges: How Social Class and Schools Structure Opportunity

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ISBN: 9780791434789 | 0791434788
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Copyright: 10/1/1997

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Examines the everyday experiences of high school seniors as they choose their colleges and demonstrates that college choice is a more complex social and organizational reality than has been previously understood.

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Acknowledgments

Who Goes Where to College?

(18)

Patterns of Educational Attainment

(1)

College Choice Research

(1)

Status Attainment Literature

(2)

School Effects Literature

(2)

Theoretical Framework

(4)

Significance of the Study

(1)

Organization of the Book

(1)

Research Methodology

(2)

Limitations

(3)

So Many Ways to Choose a College

(26)

Paloma Young Women

(8)

The Women of Gate of Heaven High School

(4)

University High School's Women

(7)

The Women of Mission Cerrito High School

(7)

Four High Schools, Four Social Worlds

(44)

Paloma School

(12)

Gate of Heaven High School

(11)

University High School

(8)

Mission Cerrito High School

(13)

A Cross-Case Analysis of High School Guidance

(22)

Overview Guidance Structure and Outcomes

(4)

Organizational Mission and Curriculum

(5)

Assumptions of Students' College Knowledge

100

(1)

Counselor Role Expectations

101

(3)

Summary of Actual and Normative Structure of College Advising

104

(2)

Organizational Habitus

106

(5)

Families, Friends, and Finances As Influences

111

(38)

Choosing a Private High School

112

(2)

Choosing a Private College Counselor

114

(6)

Family Involvement in College Choice Decision Making

120

(17)

Levels of Involvement

120

(12)

Geographical Influences

132

(2)

College Visits

134

(3)

Friends

137

(3)

Finances

140

(6)

High SES Students and College Finances

140

(2)

Low SES Students and College Finances

142

(3)

Job As Influence

145

(1)

Conclusions

146

(3)

College Choice in a Cultural Context

149

(14)

Findings

149

(6)

Implications

155

(8)

Policy: Cultural and Organizational Equality of Opportunity

157

(1)

Theory and Scholarship

158

(5)

Bibliography

163

(8)

Index

171

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Choosing Colleges: How Social Class and Schools Structure Opportunity

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