University choosers and refusers: social theory, ideas of

Title: University choosers and refusers: social theory, ideas of "choice" and implications for widening participation
Creator: Southgate, Erica; Bennett, Anna
Relation: Widening Higher Education Participation: A Global Perspective p. 225-240
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-08-100213-1.00014-7
Publisher: Elsevier
Resource Type: book chapter
Date: 2016
Description: The purpose of this chapter is to critically interrogate ideas about “choice” and higher education as they are framed in second modernity societies. We argue that “choice” is a Foucauldian-type of problematization, or a key aspect of the social world that, despite appearing to be a common sense norm, is riddled with uncertainty. We demonstrate how the concept of “choice,” as it is framed within the context of second modernity societies and their neoliberal universities, is a problematization by deploying a set of specific theoretical lenses—choice biography, structure and agency, and instrumental rationality. These sociological lenses illuminate why the idea of making choices about going to university is neither as straightforward or as logical as it seems in equity policy and practice.
Subject: agency; choice; equity; higher education; rationality; social theory; structure; widening participation
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1320051
Identifier: uon:24048
Identifier: ISBN:9780081002131
Language: eng

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University choosers and refusers: social theory, ideas of "choice" and implications for widening participation