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This study on working-class educational upward mobility is part of the research field of social inequality in education. While most studies in the field focus on discrimination, barriers, and difficulties working-class people face in education, this study explores the contexts and circumstances that enable their success. The life histories of educationally successful people from working-class families brought to light all sorts of discrimination, barriers, and difficulties but also ways of overcoming them and, more to the point, social contexts favorable for working-class people. The study, therefore, connects to the research field on social mobility and other studies on working-class educational upward mobility.
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© 2015 Antonia Kupfer
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Kupfer, A. (2015). Summary and Conclusions. In: Educational Upward Mobility. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137355317_6
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