Doctor of Philosophy / Department of Special Education, Counseling, and Student Affairs / Kenneth Hughey / The characteristics and needs of college students across the United States are ever-changing. As Millennial generation students, born between 1982 and 2003 (Howe & Strauss, 2000), attend college, unique characteristics are present. Commonalities within the Millennial generation have been identified; however, socioeconomic status can impact a student’s ability to demonstrate these characteristics of the Millennial generation (Ramsey, 2008). Socioeconomic status still remains the greatest predictor of college aspirations but can prohibit some Millennial students from the opportunity to attend college (Greene, Huerta, & Richards, 2007). This qualitative study investigated the lived experiences of low socioeconomic Millennial generation college students. Bourdieu’s (1977; Bourdieu & Passeron, 1977, 1990) Cultural Capital Theory was used as the framework to address four research questions regarding knowledge of college, academic experiences, types of support, and collegiate involvement. Research questions were developed utilizing a phenomenological methodology consisting of two semi-structured interviews with open-ended interview questions as the primary data source. Through the analysis of the participant interviews, themes of their lived experiences as a low socioeconomic status Millennial generation college student emerged. Participants shared that their families lacked knowledge and information about college although they encouraged and supported them and understood the importance of a college degree. Although the educational experiences of the participants varied, most encountered challenges transitioning from high school to college. The most important educational experience for the participants is obtaining a college degree, greatly impacting their future. Although self-supportive for most of their lives, attending college is possible through the financial support of the 21st Century Scholars Program. This financial support and the support of their collegiate friends going through similar experiences have been important. Involvement in collegiate activities was important for the participants’ future careers, relationships, and learning; however, they sought these opportunities on their own. This research supports and encourages student affairs practitioners to enhance and improve the services and support provided to low socioeconomic status students in the college community. In addition, this study supports the need for more research related to socioeconomic status within higher education as well as reexamining student development theories to take into consideration socioeconomic status.

Text in English / Accompanied DVD with printed record / In this dissertation, I explore music styles from Tshianzwane village in HaMakuya, in the Limpopo Province of South Africa, particularly malende, tshigombela, and children‘s songs. I consider the music styles as embedded in their extra-musical physical structure and abstractions; social rituals; frame of reference; forms of habitus; social order; cultural capital; social meanings, behaviour, power hierarchy, status, space, agency, institutions; formal-informal education and means; symbols; musical instruments; dance; religion; ancestor worship; traditional health practice; norms and values; mentorship and rites of passage. I further explore how and why music performers and other cultural patterns at Tshianzwane interpenetrate with each other and their living space through social roles; demonstration-imitation learning method; enculturation; dialectics of normative-interpretive, embodiment-hexis or cues, internalizationexternalization, surface-deep structure, conscious-unconscious level, qualitativequantitative understanding of music styles and genres and local-foreign context; means of communication; reinterpretation and redefinition of concepts. In conclusion, I consider how people and cultural patterns at Tshianzwane, through interpenetration, form progressing and changing social web; social connections; attachments; trance; state of flux in cultural patterns; synthesis of cultural patterns; embedded contexts; shared culture and resultant cultural patterns. Since cultural patterns, as a result of interpenetration, reflect each other, I point out the challenges in socio-spatial mapping of forms of habitus and cultural patterns. In my dissertation, I use John Blacking‘s work as my primary theoretical framework. Furthermore, I use Pierre Bourdieu‘s theoretical framework, and Hugh Tracey‘s and David Dargie‘s audio CDs on African tribal music to enrich my theoretical ground. I collected my field data at Tshianzwane in collaboration with Joseph Morake and Ignatia Madalane (students), Dr Susan Harrop-Allin (supervisor), Samson Netshifhefhe, Obert Ramashia, Paul Munyai and Musiwalo (informants). / M. Mus. / Art History, Visual Arts & Musicology

Pursuing higher education after high school is a common practice in the United States, and for many individuals this process is expected. However, students in historically underrepresented communities still have a substantially harder time transitioning from high school to college, and there are currently an increasingly broad range and scope of college preparation programs that address this issue. This report examines how social and cultural capital frameworks highlight and explore the different aspects of a student’s life that can affect whether he/she is able to access college-related resources. Using these general constructs, this report attempts to illuminate elements that are currently missing in existing programs, and highlight current successful transition programs. / text

摘要 本研究主要在Pierre Bourdieu的文化資本（Cultural Capital）理論架構下，使用「台灣教育長期追蹤資料庫」（Taiwan Education Panel Survey）2001年到2005年三波的追蹤樣本，研究學生的「學生文化資本」、「父母文化資本」以及「親子文化資本」對高中職、五專生的學習成就之影響。學生文化資本是以學生本身的文化活動參與和學校文化社團參與為指標；父母文化資本是以父母的教育程度為指標；而親子文化資本是以學生才藝課程和親子文化活動參與為指標。本研究檢證各發展階段（國小、國中、高中）中不同文化資本的動態模式，以及和學生學習成就的關係，以瞭解文化資本在台灣教育體制中所扮演的角色。研究結果如下： 1.在控制了人口與家庭背景因素之後，發現「學生文化資本」比「親子文化資本」對學習成就的影響力較大，高中階段的「學生文化資本」對學習成就的效果最大。 2.在性別方面：女生相較於男生，受到「父母文化資本」的影響較大。女生的「學生文化資本」都很高且多元，但對學習成就的影響較小；男生的「學生文化資本」不受家庭低收入的負向影響，且對學習成就影響比較大。 3.當父母為低教育程度的情況下，學生可藉由「文化資本」提升學習成就，但所提升的學習成就仍不及父母為高教育者的學習成就平均數，這意味著「文化向上流動模式」僅能達到向上微調的效果，但仍無法擺脫大環境的限制。 / Abstract This thesis examines the relationship between cultural capital and high school students’ achievement based on the cultural capital theory of Pierre Bourdieu. This thesis operationalizes the concept of cultural capital into three types: parents', students', and intergenerational cultural capital. Parents’ cultural capital is defined by parents’ education; Students’ cultural capital is defined by participating in students’ cultural activities and the cultural organizations in school; Intergenerational cultural capital is defined by students’ cultural skills class and parents-children’s cultural activities. Using data gathered by the Taiwan Education Panel Study (TEPS) in 2001, 2003 and 2005, the research estimates the effects of these three types of cultural capital on high school student's academic achievements in three stages of schooling (elementary, junior high, and senior high). The major findings of the thesis are: 1.Controlling demographic and family background factors, “student’s own cultural capital,” in particular at the stage of senior high, has more impact on academic achievement than “intergenerational cultural capital” does. 2.In comparison with male students, female students have a higher level of cultural capital, which is also more diversified. The cultural capital of female students is influenced more by their parents’ cultural capital. However, the cultural capital of female students has a fairly small effect on their academic achievement. In contrast, the cultural capital of male students, which is not negatively affected by family’s low income, has a greater effect on their academic achievement. 3.The students with parents of lower levels of education could improve their academic achievement with their own cultural capital. This improvement, however, is not enough to make up the achievement gap between disadvantaged and advantaged students.

The present dissertation deals with the factors influencing the professional careers of mer-chants and craftsmen working in the Swedish town of Sundsvall between 1850 and 1900. The most important hypotheses are: To what degree did social origins influence an entre-preneur's opportunities for running his business? How many of the children of these busi-nessmen assumed and maintained their parents' social status upon attaining adulthood? What significance did the entrepreneur's spouse have for his business activities? To what degree were his economic activities influenced by joining local voluntary associations? By combining data culled from the parish registers of the Swedish Lutheran Church, the poll tax registers and the primary source material for national trade statistics, the author has been able to identify the individuals who worked as entrepreneurs in Sundsvall during the period under investigation, what they paid in business income tax each year, the profes-sional titles they possessed and the places in which they and their relatives resided during their lifetimes. The results show that the majority of the most successful younger entrepreneurs active in the town before the introduction of freedom of trade in Sweden in the year 1864 were mostly immigrants from other parts of the country, who had furthermore come from rela-tively modest backgrounds. However, the social and geographic origins of these entrepre-neur's wives has proven to be of central significance to the success of the business, in in-stances where she had been raised in a business family from Sundsvall. The professional skill of the entrepreneur together with his wife's familiarity with the town, in all likelihood also combined with her inherited cultural capital, contributed to creating a demand from the local populace for the goods or services sold by the company / <p>Distrubution: Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudier, Umeå universitet,, 901 87 Umeå, 090-786 50 00</p>

The media landscape has evolved significantly over the last decades. Previously, the extent of media choice was limited to a handful of newspapers and radio- and TV broadcasts. However, with the rise of cable TV and internet access, people are faced with a multitude of choices regarding what media and content they choose to consume. Scholars have argued that these developments may enable people who are not interested in news consumption to avoid news more than previously. Considering this transformation of the media landscape, this paper aspires to shed light on the factors that affect news media choice. More specifically, the aim of this essay is to study upper secondary school students’ news interest, news consumption and their trust in news media.   This essay employs uses and gratifications and Bourdieu’s symbolic and cultural capital theory to analyze the empirical data. This data is based on 6 semi-structured interviews with students in the first or second year in two upper secondary schools.  The analysis demonstrates that parents’ political interest in addition to students’ uses and gratifications are significant to understand news interest and news consumption among upper secondary school students. Furthermore, the analysis highlights that the interviewees with higher cultural capital perceive news media with a higher symbolic capital as more trustworthy, while students with a lower cultural capital trust tabloid media to a greater extent.

Physical inactivity is a growing concern among adolescents, which is the fundamental issue addressed in this study. The purpose of this study was to gain more knowledge about adolescents’ physical activity habits and the factors that influence physical activity. The study was based on a questionnaire consisting of 23 questions. The participants were 149 upper secondary school pupils between 15-19 years old from Östersund who studied both theoretically and practically oriented programs. Based on the World Health Organization [WHO] recommendations on physical activity the adolescents were categorized as active and inactive, and then compared with various background factors that previous research has demonstrated as being important determinants of physical activity. These factors were socioeconomic background, parental influence, sex and ethnicity. The results showed that most active adolescents are also active in sports clubs (p &lt;0.05), has the highest final grade in the subject physical education and health in school year 9 (p &lt;0.05), attends a theoretical program (p &lt;0, 05), has a high educational capital (p &lt;0.05), has a high sporting capital (p &lt;0.05), is more motivated to physical activity (p &lt;0.05) and have more support from their parents (p &lt;0.05). The results was discussed by using the framework suggested by Bourdieu, habitus and capital.

Scholars for decades have studied the achievement gap and attempted to explain it in regards to race and class. Throughout the existing literature regarding the achievement gap between black and white students, however, there is a dearth of research exploring why the gap exists for upper-class black students; this population is largely ignored. This research seeks to explain why an achievement gap exists between white and black students who come from households of similar incomes. Ten students (five white and five black gradates) of a private, non-parochial school in Washington DC are interviewed about high school and post-high school experiences. Using cultural capital and labeling theory frameworks, this study follows the work of Billings (2011), Pattillo-McCoy (2000), Lacy (2007), and Khan (2011) in their focus on black students, cultural capital, and embodied privilege, and builds on that of Lensmire (2012), Dixon-Roman 2014, Orr (2003) Adams (2010) and Tyson et al. (2005). Results uncover the uniquely complex configuration of class and race. Latent issues as a result of race can arise, and the research illustrates how they affect the achievement ideology and attainment of both black and white students. This study’s findings suggest that two mechanisms shape the achievement gap: academic support and social interactions and interpretations, with the former rooted largely in class differences and the latter rooted in racial differences. This study aims to improve our understanding of the distinct role race and class play in influencing educational and professional outcomes from upper-class backgrounds.

Esta pesquisa investiga as condições objetivas e os determinantes sociais que permitiram a alguns professores efetivos da rede estadual de São Paulo participar do Projeto Bolsa Mestrado. Tal projeto, desde 2004, faz parte das políticas de formação continuada oferecidas pela Secretaria de Estado da Educação de São Paulo (SEE), com o objetivo de fornecer aos seus integrantes a possibilidade de aprofundar conhecimentos de natureza teórica e prática que pudessem interferir positivamente em seu desenvolvimento profissional. Embora se apresente como universal, pelo fato de ser aberto a todos os 125 mil docentes efetivos da rede estadual, menos de 2% deles se aventuram a participar do projeto, mostrando que a disposição para participar dessa iniciativa se enraíza em condições particulares de existência relacionadas diretamente com as condutas dos seus agentes adaptadas às condições das quais são produtos, em função de uma espécie de acordo existente entre as disposições dos agentes, advindas do âmbito familiar e dos demais processos de socialização sofridos ao longo da vida e as exigências do universo em que estão inseridos. Numa tentativa de compreender esse fenômeno, o presente trabalho, tendo como referência a teoria de Pierre Bourdieu, propõe-se a conhecer as características de alguns professores que participaram do Projeto Bolsa Mestrado, desvelando as condições que, no decorrer de sua trajetória, os levaram a constituir o interesse pelo desenvolvimento de uma pesquisa nesse nível. Na mesma perspectiva, pretende-se apreender os sentidos que esta experiência teve para esses agentes, averiguando se houve transformações em sua posição no campo educacional e relacionando essas transformações com dados que mostram a situação dos cursos de Mestrado no Brasil. Espera-se, assim contribuir para a identificação dos significados da realização do Mestrado para os agentes em questão. Por meio de entrevistas com quatro professores que participaram do Projeto Bolsa Mestrado e que atualmente são mestres, foi possível constatar que o capital cultural amealhado por cada um deles ao longo de sua trajetória resultou em relações específicas com o conhecimento e com a vontade de continuar estudando. Destaca-se que a conclusão do Mestrado possibilitou aos professores investigados estabelecer estratégias de distinção e de obtenção de capital simbólico, além de trazer melhorias em termos de capital cultural e econômico. Entretanto, esses ganhos não encontraram ressonância dentro da própria rede estadual, que não cria condições para a permanência desses professores em suas salas de aula. Esse quadro é agravado pela limitação dos ganhos materiais e simbólicos dos professores da rede estadual, dado o processo generalizado de desvalorização social da docência e ao lugar que esses professores ocupam no campo educacional. / This research investigates the objective conditions and the social determinants that allowed some teachers of São Paulos public education system to participated in the Bolsa Mestrado program. This program is part of the continued education policies offered by the Department of Education of São Paulo government in order to provide its members the opportunity to improve their knowledge and resulting in professional development. Although the program is presented as universal, opened to all 125 000 teachers of São Paulos public education system, less than 2% of them have enrolled. It shows that teachers disposal to participate in this program is based on specific conditions like, personal background, individuals personal dispositions, family influence and interpersonal relationship related to the environment theyre in. In attempt to understand this fact, the present work, with reference to Pierre Bourdieus theory, intends to investigate the characteristics of some teachers who participated in the program. This work also reveals in which conditions postgraduate studies became interest in teachers career and intend to understand the meanings of this experience for them by examining changes in their position in the educational system and relating these changes to master degree programs in Brazil. It is expected to identify the meaning of doing master degree. Through interviews with four teachers, all master\'s degree holders, who paticipated the program, it was established that the cultural capital amassed by each one of them throughout their careers resulted in specific relations between the knowledge and the will to continue studying. It can be observed that the master degree allowed teachers to establish strategies of distinction, achievement of symbolic capital and improvement in economic and cultural capital. However, these gains did not find resonance within the São Paulos public education system which does not create conditions for the teachers permanence in classrooms. This situation is aggravated by the limitations of material and symbolic gains, in a context of social devaluation of teacher expertise and of the positions these teachers occupy in the educational system.

No entender do sociólogo francês Pierre Bourdieu, disposições culturais vêm a ser um conjunto de regras, incorporadas de maneira inconsciente pelos indivíduos, as quais perpassam os domínios éticos, estéticos, cognitivos e físicos. Como exemplo, podem ser citadas as disposições linguísticas, sexuais, religiosas e estéticas, que contém a nossa visão de mundo e o nosso posicionamento nele. As disposições produzem nossa visão de mundo e condicionam nossas tomadas de posição. Tais disposições são adquiridas através das experiências de vida e em instituições constituídas em nossa sociedade como a família e a escola. Embora não haja escritos específicos de Bourdieu com relação à Educação de Jovens e Adultos (EJA), acreditamos que as disposições culturais incorporadas acabam por ser fundamentais para influenciar a exclusão de um grande contingente de estudantes dos bancos escolares quando ainda são crianças, bem como consolidar trajetórias sociais desprovidas de escolaridade institucionalizada. Na presente dissertação procura-se investigar os condicionantes que determinaram o fracasso escolar e, supostamente, social, de um conjunto de jovens e adultos inseridos em salas de alfabetização das escolas municipais de Piracicaba, estado de São Paulo. Observa-se que a grande maioria dos pesquisados é proveniente de zonas rurais de distintos municípios da região e que mantinham situações de existência divergentes da ideologia urbana propagada nas escolas formais de ensino fundamental em meados da segunda metade do século XX. Entendemos ser relevante o estudo do tema proposto, uma vez que a EJA surge em decorrência de um sistema social e escolar excludente que, através de sua ação pedagógica, modificou a trajetória de milhares de pessoas que buscam em tempos atuais o que não conseguiram na infância. Contudo, a escolarização é apenas uma das relações sociais das quais essas pessoas estão excluídas. Há o aprofundamento de uma exclusão marcada pela desigualdade. Por outro lado, a escola também pode ser considerada espaço de contradição e de superação das desigualdades sociais. Assim, a EJA pode representar subversão à lógica da exclusão, uma vez que historicamente a despossessão do capital escolar é presente nessas pessoas, e a procura pela escolarização na fase adulta pode representar uma forma de resistência. / To the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, cultural disposition is a group of rules, unconsciously incorporated by people, which pervades ethical dominion, aesthetic, cognitive and physical. As example, we can mention the linguistic dominion, sexual, religious and aesthetic, which contains our world view and our position in it. The dispositions produce our world view and condition our stance. Those dispositions are acquired through life experiences and in institutions as family and school. Although there isn´t specific Bourdieu literature related to Adult and Youth Education (AYE), we believe that incorporated cultural dispositions end up being essential to exclude a large students contingent from the school desks when they are still children, as well as consolidate social trajectory devoid of institutionalized schooling. In the present dissertation it´s tried to investigate the constraints that determine the school failure and, supposedly, social failure, of a group of young and adults inserted in literacy classrooms from Piracicaba´s municipal schools, São Paulo state. It´s observed that a big part of the individuals researched comes from rural zones of the region distinct municipalities and they were in existing situations different from the urban ideology propagated in the formal elementary schools during the midyears of the XX century´s second half. The study of the proposed theme is relevant because AYE arises from an excluding social and school system that, through its pedagogical action, changed the trajectory of thousands of people that seek, nowadays, what they didn´t achieve in their childhood. However, the schooling is only one of the social relations which those people are excluded from. There is a deepening of an exclusion marked by the inequality. On the other hand, the school can also be considered a place for contradiction and social inequalities overcoming. Thus, the adult and youth education can represent subversion of the exclusion logic, since historically the dispossession of the school capital is present in these people, and the search for schooling in the adult phase can represent a resistance form.