This article examines evolving uses of Bourdieu's signature concept of Cultural Capital in
American educational research. Bourdieu originally developed the concept in the 1960s and …

First-generation students (FGSs) have received a great deal of attention in education
research, practice, and policy. The difficulty of understanding and subsequently addressing …

Social capital plays a key role in college and career success, and research indicates that a
dearth of on‐campus connections contributes to challenges first‐generation college …

Abstract Although the United States population is growing increasingly diverse, the diversity
within higher education is not keeping pace. Contributing to the underrepresentation of …

How do physical digital inequalities persist as technology becomes commonplace? We
consider this question using surveys and focus groups with US college students, a group …

Morton offers a philosophical examination of the ethical costs of upward mobility—the
sacrifices to relationships with family and friends, connection to their community, and sense …

In recent years, research has brought attention to the heterogeneity of resources that first-
generation students bring with them to higher education and the factors that assist in these …

We draw on 120 years of biographical data (N= 120,764) contained within Who's Who—a
unique catalogue of the British elite—to explore the changing relationship between elite …

In introducing the special issue, Society in the Classroom: Multilevel Perspectives on
Socioeconomic Inequalities in Education, we begin by challenging the assumption that …

Bachelor's degree (BA) completion is lower among black students than among white
students. In this study, we use data from the Education Longitudinal Study of 2002 and the …