Choosing Colleges: How social class and schools structure opportunity

Choosing Colleges: How social class and schools structure opportunity by McDonough

• First person to Bordeoix with respect to qualitative research on college access
• Far more importance on social capital
• showed how the “habitus” of the school matters and works to the idea of a college going culture
• Concept of cultural capital

McDonough, P.M. (1997). Choosing colleges: How social class and schools structure opportunity. Albany, NY: SUNY Press.