- Title
- Time and money explain social class differences in students’ social integration at university
- Creator
- Rubin, Mark; Wright, Chrysalis L.
- Relation
- Studies in Higher Education Vol. 42, Issue 2, p. 315-330
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2015.1045481
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2017
- Description
- Working-class students tend to be less socially integrated at university than middle-class students. The present research investigated two potential reasons for this working-class social exclusion effect. First, working-class students may have fewer finances available to participate in social activities. Second, working-class students tend to be older than middle-class students and, consequently, they are likely to have more work and/or childcare commitments. These additional commitments may prevent them from attending campus which, in turn, reduces their opportunity for social integration. These predictions were confirmed among undergraduate students at an Australian university (N = 433) and a US university (N = 416). Strategies for increasing working-class students' social integration at university are discussed.
- Subject
- first-generation students; social class; social inclusion; social integration; socio-economic status
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1328567
- Identifier
- uon:25936
- Identifier
- ISSN:0307-5079
- Rights
- This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Studies in Higher Education on 24/06/15, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/03075079.2015.1045481
- Language
- eng
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