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- Title
The Graduate School Pipeline and First-Generation/Working-Class Inequalities.
- Authors
Hurst, Allison L.; Roscigno, Vincent J.; Jack, Anthony Abraham; McDermott, Monica; Warnock, Deborah M.; Muñoz, José A.; Johnson, Wendi; Lee, Elizabeth M.; King, Colby R.; Brady, David; Francis, Robert D.; Delaney, Kevin J.; Vitullo, Margaret Weigers
- Abstract
Sociological research has long been interested in inequalities generated by and within educational institutions. Although relatively rich as a literature, less analytic focus has centered on educational mobility and inequality experiences within graduate training specifically. In this article, we draw on a combination of survey and open-ended qualitative data from approximately 450 graduate students in the discipline of sociology to analyze graduate school pipeline divergences for first-generation and working-class students and the implications for inequalities in tangible resources, advising and support, and a sense of isolation. Our results point to an important connection between private undergraduate institutional enrollment and higher-status graduate program attendance—a pattern that undercuts social-class mobility in graduate training and creates notable precarities in debt, advising, and sense of belonging for first-generation and working-class graduate students. We conclude by discussing the unequal pathways revealed and their implications for merit and mobility, graduate training, and opportunity within our and other disciplines.
- Subjects
GRADUATE education; SOCIOLOGICAL research; GRADUATE students; EDUCATIONAL mobility; SCHOOL discipline; SCHOOL-to-prison pipeline; INTERGENERATIONAL mobility
- Publication
Sociology of Education, 2024, Vol 97, Issue 2, p148
- ISSN
0038-0407
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/00380407231215051