Choice and social class of medical school students in Greece
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11166244 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Eleni Sianou‐kyrgiou (University of Ioannina, corresponding author), Iakovos Tsiplakides (University of Ioannina) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 727-740 |
| Publication date | 2009-11-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | British Journal of Sociology of Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0142-5692 • E-ISSN: 1465-3346 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01425690903235276 |
| OpenAlex | W2054302797 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 45 |
A growing body of literature focuses on choice of studies in the context of policies on widening participation in higher education and graduates' difficulties in the labour market. Drawing on research findings showing a relationship between social class and choice of studies, we conducted a qualitative study on first‐year medical students in a Greek university. The research aim was to examine the seemingly paradoxical choice of medical school, given the contradiction between the great investment in time, effort and money required, and inflation of medical graduates and high unemployment levels. Apart from the impact of social class, findings suggest that choice is also strongly influenced by the broader context of the social and financial relations, and the education system. We argue that any attempts to analyse choice processes need to accommodate the specific national characteristics and peculiarities
Class (philosophy · Context (archaeology · Contradiction · Economic growth · Economics · Higher education · Investment (military · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Qualitative research · School choice · Social class · Social environment · Social science · Sociology · Unemployment · Diversity and Career in Medicine · Global Health Workforce Issues · Higher Education Research Studies · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology
CHAPTER ONE More Inclusion Than Diversion
Class Strategies and the Education Market
Human Capital
Outline of a Theory of Practice
Stratification in Higher Education
The Opportunity Trap
The Logic of Practice
Space, Work and the 'New Urban Economies
I Don't Want to Commit Myself Yet’
Ethnic Choosing
Social class and access to higher education in Greece
Throwing your brains at it
Reproduction in Education, Society and Culture
Always knowing’ and ‘never being sure’
Middle class education strategies and residential segregation in Athens
Reproduction and transformation of inequalities in schooling
White middle‐class parents, identities, educational choice and the urban comprehensive school
I Heard It on the Grapevine’
The degree is not enough’
Classification' and 'Judgement
Social and cultural capital in educational research
Making their Minds Up’
Consumption Matters
The Returns to Higher Education in Britain
Reproduction in education, society, and culture
Explaining Educational Differentials
Employability in a Knowledge-driven Economy
Careership
Class Analysis and the Reorientation of Class Theory
Education Culture, Economy, and Society
Class analysis and the reorientation of class theory
Consuming Schooling
On Education, opportunity, and social inequality
Cultural Capital and Social Exclusion
Social Capital
Class, Mobility and Merit The Experience of Two British Birth Cohorts
The Globalisation of Positional Competition
| Citations per year | 0.27 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2011 - 2018 (8) |
| Highly cited | No |