Allison L Hurst
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 2629134 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Allison L Hurst |
| NOMBRES | Allison L |
| APELLIDO | Hurst |
| FIRMA | HURST A L |
| AFILIACIONES | Oregon State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5221-798X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 23 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 97 |
| OBRAS COMO AUTOR | 23 |
| OBRAS COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1970 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Inequality and Perceived Impacts of Class Background on Academic Careers
Social science researchers and higher-education personnel have begun to recognize the unique and unequal experiences of first-generation, low-income, and working-class students, but what of those from such backgrounds that manage to reach the professoriate? What can we learn from their mobility experiences? What obstacles do they and others perceive standing in their way? Using original data on faculty and graduate students collected between 2018…
I Don’t Even Talk About It”
The Graduate School Pipeline and First-Generation/Working-Class Inequalities
Sociological research has long been interested in inequalities generated by and within educational institutions. Although relatively rich as a literature, less analytic focus has centered on educational mobility and inequality experiences within graduate training specifically. In this article, we draw on a combination of survey and open-ended qualitative data from approximately 450 graduate students in the discipline of sociology to analyze gradu…
Mobility and Inequality in the Professoriate
Social science research has long recognized the relevance of socioeconomic background for mobility and inequality. In this article we interrogate how and why working-class and first-generation backgrounds are especially meaningful and take as our case in point the professoriate and the discipline of sociology, - i.e., a field that intellectually prioritizes attention to group inequality and that arguably offers a conservative empirical test compa…
Class cultures
Amplified Advantage
Amplified Advantage: Going to a “Good” College in an Era of Inequality Lexington Books, 2019, 302 pages, https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781498589659/Amplified-Advantage-Going-to-a-%E2%80%9CGood%E2%80%9D-College-in-an-Era-of-Inequality Allison L Hurst Allison L Hurst Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 99, Issue 2, December 2020, Pages e1–e2, https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/soaa045 Published: 22 May …
Amplified Advantage
Amplified Advantage investigates the value and impact of today’s small liberal arts colleges through an extended examination of a recent cohort of students attending them. It demonstrates how these colleges sometimes succeed and sometimes fail in equalizing the experience of all their students. But there is more to the book than that. Although primarily an account of life and learning at small liberal arts colleges in the US today, scholars will …
Class and Gender as predictors of study abroad participation among US liberal arts college Students
This paper explores one of the enduring small mysteries of student life – why do women participate in study abroad programs more than men? To answer this question, original data collected from seniors and recent graduates of a sample of liberal arts colleges in the US were analyzed. Results show an intractable gender gap persisting, even after common explanatory factors are explored, although these factors also point to the problem as one of gend…
The Educated Underclass
Classed outcomes
In the United States, attending a selective liberal arts college is often a sign of success. Human capital theory assumes graduates from these colleges share similar outcomes, in terms of employment and further education. This article reports, findings from a national (US) survey of liberal arts college students who graduated between 2012 and 2014. It finds significant differences in the immediate post-graduation outcomes of students based on fam…
American Misfits and the Making of Middle-Class Respectability
In this entertaining and sprawling book, Wuthnow turns his attention to the ways in which the notion of middle-class respectability gained traction in the United States in the nineteenth century, particularly after the Civil War. Drawing on the work of Bourdieu, Wuthnow argues that middle-class respectability is a practice, one that constructs the middle class through a series of distinctions drawn between its practitioners and various “others.” …
Working in Class
More students today are financing college through debt, but the burdens of debt are not equally shared. The least privileged students are those most encumbered and the least able to repay. All of this has implications for those who work in academia, especially those who are themselves from less advantaged backgrounds. Warnock argues that it is difficult to reconcile the goals of facilitating upward mobility for students from similar backgrounds w…
The poor kids’ table”
A Healing Echo
College students from the working cl ass have interesting stories to tell about the meaning and operation of mobility through education. The author, herself a “working-class academic,” explores some of the issues and dilemmas of uncovering and presenting these stories. Specifically, the author addresses: (1) the effects of interviewing those similar to one’s self; (2) the possibility of losing voice when interviewing too many participants; (3) th…
Aspiring Adults Adrift
Wealth, Whiteness, and the Matrix of Privilege
The Burden of Academic Success
The Burden of Academic Success: Loyalists, Renegades, and Double Agentsexplores class identity reconstructions among working-class students attending a public university. Rather than focus on working-class failure, this book takes a critical look at the psychological and social costs of academic success. Based on several hours of interviews with a diverse group of working-class students, this book describes how successful students respond to, rea…
The Burden of Academic Success
1 Preface 2 Acknowledgements 3 Chapter One: Introduction 4 Chapter Two: Historical and Social Background 5 Chapter Three: Class Stereotypes of Intelligence and the Possibilities of Education 6 Chapter Four: Opposing Cultures 7 Chapter Five: Divided Loyalties 8 Chapter Six: Gates and Gowns 9 Chapter Seven: The Burden of Academic Success 10 Chapter Eight: Conclusion 11 Appendix A: Methodology
Languages of Class in US Party Platforms, 1880-1936
This article will explore the shifting use of class language in party platforms during theLochnerera, a period of increased class polarization, social unrest, andlaissez fairejudicial philosophy. It explores the ways in which political parties responded to the growing inequality of wealth and the judicial distaste for "class legislation." Using as a dataset all available party platforms of the presidential elections years during this period, I an…
Class Construction
Telling Tales of Oppression and Dysfunction
I compare experiences and class identity formation of working-class college students in college. I find that all working-class students experience college as culturally different from their home cultures and have different understandings and interpretations of this difference based on race, class, and gender positions. I find that students develop fundamentally different strategies for navigating these cultural differences based on the strength o…
Instability in patchworks of child care when moving from welfare to work
We use longitudinal, qualitative interview data collected from 38 initially welfare-reliant women in Cleveland, Ohio to examine the factors driving instability in child-care arrangements when women transitioned from welfare to work. Grounded theory analysis revealed that decisions about care were circumscribed by scarce social and economic resources, women went to extraordinary lengths to patch together arrangements that typically involved multip…
Schoolcraft vs. Becoming Somebody
By exploring the meanings working-class students attribute to college and academic success, this article uncovers important and surprising disjunctures between the official view of college as a pathway to social mobility and students’ own needs and aspirations. While some working-class college students do use college as a “ticket out of the working class,” others reject this view, arguing that the twin functions of college as educative and creden…
Instability in patchworks of child care when moving from welfare to work
We use longitudinal, qualitative interview data collected from 38 initially welfare-reliant women in Cleveland, Ohio to examine the factors driving instability in child-care arrangements when women transitioned from welfare to work. Grounded theory analysis revealed that decisions about care were circumscribed by scarce social and economic resources, women went to extraordinary lengths to patch together arrangements that typically involved multip…
The poor kids’ table”
Mobility and Inequality in the Professoriate
Social science research has long recognized the relevance of socioeconomic background for mobility and inequality. In this article we interrogate how and why working-class and first-generation backgrounds are especially meaningful and take as our case in point the professoriate and the discipline of sociology, - i.e., a field that intellectually prioritizes attention to group inequality and that arguably offers a conservative empirical test compa…
Classed outcomes
In the United States, attending a selective liberal arts college is often a sign of success. Human capital theory assumes graduates from these colleges share similar outcomes, in terms of employment and further education. This article reports, findings from a national (US) survey of liberal arts college students who graduated between 2012 and 2014. It finds significant differences in the immediate post-graduation outcomes of students based on fam…
The Graduate School Pipeline and First-Generation/Working-Class Inequalities
Sociological research has long been interested in inequalities generated by and within educational institutions. Although relatively rich as a literature, less analytic focus has centered on educational mobility and inequality experiences within graduate training specifically. In this article, we draw on a combination of survey and open-ended qualitative data from approximately 450 graduate students in the discipline of sociology to analyze gradu…
Aspiring Adults Adrift
Class and Gender as predictors of study abroad participation among US liberal arts college Students
This paper explores one of the enduring small mysteries of student life – why do women participate in study abroad programs more than men? To answer this question, original data collected from seniors and recent graduates of a sample of liberal arts colleges in the US were analyzed. Results show an intractable gender gap persisting, even after common explanatory factors are explored, although these factors also point to the problem as one of gend…
A Healing Echo
College students from the working cl ass have interesting stories to tell about the meaning and operation of mobility through education. The author, herself a “working-class academic,” explores some of the issues and dilemmas of uncovering and presenting these stories. Specifically, the author addresses: (1) the effects of interviewing those similar to one’s self; (2) the possibility of losing voice when interviewing too many participants; (3) th…
Wealth, Whiteness, and the Matrix of Privilege
Telling Tales of Oppression and Dysfunction
I compare experiences and class identity formation of working-class college students in college. I find that all working-class students experience college as culturally different from their home cultures and have different understandings and interpretations of this difference based on race, class, and gender positions. I find that students develop fundamentally different strategies for navigating these cultural differences based on the strength o…
I Don’t Even Talk About It”
Languages of Class in US Party Platforms, 1880-1936
This article will explore the shifting use of class language in party platforms during theLochnerera, a period of increased class polarization, social unrest, andlaissez fairejudicial philosophy. It explores the ways in which political parties responded to the growing inequality of wealth and the judicial distaste for "class legislation." Using as a dataset all available party platforms of the presidential elections years during this period, I an…
Class Construction
Schoolcraft vs. Becoming Somebody
By exploring the meanings working-class students attribute to college and academic success, this article uncovers important and surprising disjunctures between the official view of college as a pathway to social mobility and students’ own needs and aspirations. While some working-class college students do use college as a “ticket out of the working class,” others reject this view, arguing that the twin functions of college as educative and creden…
Instability in patchworks of child care when moving from welfare to work
We use longitudinal, qualitative interview data collected from 38 initially welfare-reliant women in Cleveland, Ohio to examine the factors driving instability in child-care arrangements when women transitioned from welfare to work. Grounded theory analysis revealed that decisions about care were circumscribed by scarce social and economic resources, women went to extraordinary lengths to patch together arrangements that typically involved multip…
Telling Tales of Oppression and Dysfunction
I compare experiences and class identity formation of working-class college students in college. I find that all working-class students experience college as culturally different from their home cultures and have different understandings and interpretations of this difference based on race, class, and gender positions. I find that students develop fundamentally different strategies for navigating these cultural differences based on the strength o…
Class Construction
The Burden of Academic Success
The Burden of Academic Success: Loyalists, Renegades, and Double Agentsexplores class identity reconstructions among working-class students attending a public university. Rather than focus on working-class failure, this book takes a critical look at the psychological and social costs of academic success. Based on several hours of interviews with a diverse group of working-class students, this book describes how successful students respond to, rea…
The Burden of Academic Success
1 Preface 2 Acknowledgements 3 Chapter One: Introduction 4 Chapter Two: Historical and Social Background 5 Chapter Three: Class Stereotypes of Intelligence and the Possibilities of Education 6 Chapter Four: Opposing Cultures 7 Chapter Five: Divided Loyalties 8 Chapter Six: Gates and Gowns 9 Chapter Seven: The Burden of Academic Success 10 Chapter Eight: Conclusion 11 Appendix A: Methodology
Languages of Class in US Party Platforms, 1880-1936
This article will explore the shifting use of class language in party platforms during theLochnerera, a period of increased class polarization, social unrest, andlaissez fairejudicial philosophy. It explores the ways in which political parties responded to the growing inequality of wealth and the judicial distaste for "class legislation." Using as a dataset all available party platforms of the presidential elections years during this period, I an…
Wealth, Whiteness, and the Matrix of Privilege
A Healing Echo
College students from the working cl ass have interesting stories to tell about the meaning and operation of mobility through education. The author, herself a “working-class academic,” explores some of the issues and dilemmas of uncovering and presenting these stories. Specifically, the author addresses: (1) the effects of interviewing those similar to one’s self; (2) the possibility of losing voice when interviewing too many participants; (3) th…
Aspiring Adults Adrift
Working in Class
More students today are financing college through debt, but the burdens of debt are not equally shared. The least privileged students are those most encumbered and the least able to repay. All of this has implications for those who work in academia, especially those who are themselves from less advantaged backgrounds. Warnock argues that it is difficult to reconcile the goals of facilitating upward mobility for students from similar backgrounds w…
The poor kids’ table”
Classed outcomes
In the United States, attending a selective liberal arts college is often a sign of success. Human capital theory assumes graduates from these colleges share similar outcomes, in terms of employment and further education. This article reports, findings from a national (US) survey of liberal arts college students who graduated between 2012 and 2014. It finds significant differences in the immediate post-graduation outcomes of students based on fam…
American Misfits and the Making of Middle-Class Respectability
In this entertaining and sprawling book, Wuthnow turns his attention to the ways in which the notion of middle-class respectability gained traction in the United States in the nineteenth century, particularly after the Civil War. Drawing on the work of Bourdieu, Wuthnow argues that middle-class respectability is a practice, one that constructs the middle class through a series of distinctions drawn between its practitioners and various “others.” …
Amplified Advantage
Amplified Advantage investigates the value and impact of today’s small liberal arts colleges through an extended examination of a recent cohort of students attending them. It demonstrates how these colleges sometimes succeed and sometimes fail in equalizing the experience of all their students. But there is more to the book than that. Although primarily an account of life and learning at small liberal arts colleges in the US today, scholars will …
Class and Gender as predictors of study abroad participation among US liberal arts college Students
This paper explores one of the enduring small mysteries of student life – why do women participate in study abroad programs more than men? To answer this question, original data collected from seniors and recent graduates of a sample of liberal arts colleges in the US were analyzed. Results show an intractable gender gap persisting, even after common explanatory factors are explored, although these factors also point to the problem as one of gend…
The Educated Underclass
Amplified Advantage
Amplified Advantage: Going to a “Good” College in an Era of Inequality Lexington Books, 2019, 302 pages, https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781498589659/Amplified-Advantage-Going-to-a-%E2%80%9CGood%E2%80%9D-College-in-an-Era-of-Inequality Allison L Hurst Allison L Hurst Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 99, Issue 2, December 2020, Pages e1–e2, https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/soaa045 Published: 22 May …
Class cultures
Mobility and Inequality in the Professoriate
Social science research has long recognized the relevance of socioeconomic background for mobility and inequality. In this article we interrogate how and why working-class and first-generation backgrounds are especially meaningful and take as our case in point the professoriate and the discipline of sociology, - i.e., a field that intellectually prioritizes attention to group inequality and that arguably offers a conservative empirical test compa…
I Don’t Even Talk About It”
The Graduate School Pipeline and First-Generation/Working-Class Inequalities
Sociological research has long been interested in inequalities generated by and within educational institutions. Although relatively rich as a literature, less analytic focus has centered on educational mobility and inequality experiences within graduate training specifically. In this article, we draw on a combination of survey and open-ended qualitative data from approximately 450 graduate students in the discipline of sociology to analyze gradu…
Inequality and Perceived Impacts of Class Background on Academic Careers
Social science researchers and higher-education personnel have begun to recognize the unique and unequal experiences of first-generation, low-income, and working-class students, but what of those from such backgrounds that manage to reach the professoriate? What can we learn from their mobility experiences? What obstacles do they and others perceive standing in their way? Using original data on faculty and graduate students collected between 2018…
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