Allison Hurst - “Student Types as Reflection of Class Habitus: An

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Allison L. Hurst
Theory and Research in Education , vol. 11(1), 2013, pp. 43-61

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Hurst, A. L. (2013). “Student Types as Reflection of Class Habitus: An Application of Bourdieu’s Scholastic Fallacy" Theory and Research in Education , 11(1), 43–61. https://doi.org/10.1177/1477878512468383

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Hurst, Allison L. “‘Student Types as Reflection of Class Habitus: An Application of Bourdieu’s Scholastic Fallacy&Quot;” Theory and Research in Education 11, no. 1 (2013): 43–61.

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Hurst, Allison L. “‘Student Types as Reflection of Class Habitus: An Application of Bourdieu’s Scholastic Fallacy&Quot;” Theory and Research in Education , vol. 11, no. 1, 2013, pp. 43–61, doi:10.1177/1477878512468383.

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@article{allison2013a,
  title = {“Student Types as Reflection of Class Habitus:  An Application of Bourdieu’s Scholastic Fallacy"},
  year = {2013},
  issue = {1},
  journal = {Theory and Research in Education },
  pages = {43-61},
  volume = {11},
  doi = {10.1177/1477878512468383},
  author = {Hurst, Allison L.}
}

Have college students become careerists rather than intellectuals? Are working-class students to blame for grade inflation, grade-grubbing, and the downscaling of the university’s noble mission of educating the whole person? These assertions, although somewhat buried in a mass of facts and findings, are present in almost every research study on college student ‘orientations’ produced since the 1970s. This article critically examines these assertions from a working-class perspective, pointing out the ways ‘intellectualism’ and ‘academicism’ have been culturally constructed to favor middle-class behavior and actions, arguing instead that anxiety over the economic value of a college degree reflects awareness of intense changes in the occupational structure and has little to do with increased materialism or anti-intellectualism.