416 - Regular Session. Sociology of Higher Education II - "Legitimate" Institutional Expansion, Transformation, and Stratification

Session Submission Type: Paper Session

Abstract

This session includes several papers that address shifts and expansions in particular institutional areas in tremendously novel ways and how these dynamics have major implications for stratification. Taken together, these papers highlight how higher education organizations operate together as an industry, and how transformations in that industry shape the patterns of opportunity in any given society. What is considered legitimate, what gets prioritized, which institutions increase in size and enrollments, and how education is delivered all have powerful impacts on the structure of opportunities for individuals and subgroups in the wider society.

Sub Unit

• Higher Education, Sociology of

Session Organizer

• Regina Deil-Amen, University of Arizona

Presider

• Katharine Broton, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Individual Presentations

• Online Education Institutionalized: Through the Lens of Faculty, Administrator, and External Organization Institutional Logics - Lauren A. Nicoll, Northeastern University

• How to Rank Colleges: Reproducers of Privilege or Transformers? - Allison L. Hurst, Oregon State University

• College for All, Degrees for Few:For-Profit Colleges and Socioeconomic Differences in Degree Attainmen - Dafna Gelbgiser, Cornell University; Kim Weeden, Cornell University

Discussant

• Mitchell L. Stevens, Stanford University