Low-Income Students at Selective Institutions: The Complicated Relationship Between Financial Redistribution and Cultural Recognition

• In Event: College and Social Class Diversity

Abstract

This study uses constructivist narrative inquiry to examine the ways that a purposeful sample of eight low-income students experience social class at selective institutions. This study uses a framework of Fraser (1995) to explore how and if class based recognition occurs.

Author

• Genia M. Bettencourt, University of Massachusetts, Amherst