In this review, we integrate three bodies of scholarship—education stratification research,
political-historical sociology of higher education, and sociological theories of race and …

Intergenerational mobility is higher among college graduates than among people with lower
levels of education. In light of this finding, researchers have characterized a college degree …

Landmark research from before the 2010s shows that college women rarely held institutions
responsible for allowing rape-prone party contexts to persist and failing to support survivors …

As quintessential knowledge organisations, universities need to constantly foster knowledge
sharing between their students to enable their academic success and employability. This …

Using data from a 12-year longitudinal qualitative interview study of 45 white women at a
public flagship university in the American Midwest, the authors compare the class position of …

Institutional integration has long been an important focus in literatures on inequality,
education and mobility. Building on this work and drawing from multi-wave survey and …

Colleges and universities are a unique context in which students encounter similar aged
peers from a wide range of economic backgrounds. As emerging adults coping with major …

Gender researchers have only recently begun to identify how women perceive and explain
the costs and benefits associated with different femininities. Yet status hierarchies among …

Substantial stratification research examines the equalizing potential of American higher
education. Much of this research focuses on college “quality,” proxied empirically by …

Objective This article identifies mechanisms through which social class background shapes
the marital outcomes of college‐going white American women. Background Scholars are …