- Title
- Ties that bind: the ambiguous role played by social capital in black working class first-generation South African students’ negotiation of university life
- Creator
- Vincent, Louise, Hlatshwayo, M
- Date
- 2018
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/141722
- Identifier
- vital:37999
- Identifier
- DOI: 10.20853/32-3-2538
- Description
- In this article we examine the ambiguous role that social capital plays in first generation Black working class South African students’ negotiation of entry into an elite higher education institutional environment. First generation student experiences have a particular relevance in South Africa where student enrolment increased by 193 000 between 1993 and 2004, with many of the new entrants first-generation students. South African research on first-generation working class Black students has focused on the low proportion of these students who reach university at all and among those who do enter university, the significant number who perform poorly or drop out before completing their degrees. The role played by social capital (social networks, close friends, associations, clubs and other affiliations) in these students’ experiences of negotiating their entry into university has been little explored.
- Format
- 21 pages, pdf
- Language
- English
- Relation
- South African Journal of Higher Education, Vincent, L. and Hlatshwayo, M., 2018. Ties that bind: The ambiguous role played by social capital in black working class first-generation South African students’ negotiation of university life. South African Journal of Higher Education, 32(3), pp.118-138., South African Journal of Higher Education volume 32 number 3 118 138 2018 1011-3487
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SDG 10. Reduced Inequalities
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