The Application of Social and Cultural Capital: A Study of the 25th Year Reunion Entries of Prep School and Public School Graduates of Yale College.

Zweigenhaft, Richard L.

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Publication Date: 1992

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The Application of Social and Cultural Capital: A Study of the 25th Year Reunion Entries of Prep School and Public School Graduates of Yale College.

Zweigenhaft, Richard L.

Higher Education, v23 n3 p311-20 Apr 1992

A study of the postcollege experiences of 149 Yale College (Connecticut) graduates from elite prep schools, nonelite prep schools, and public high schools in 1963 supported the expectation that prep school graduates would have accumulated "social capital" according to one theory, and public school graduates would accumulate more "cultural capital." (Author/MSE)

Descriptors: Career Choice, College Bound Students, College Graduates, Comparative Analysis, Educational Attainment, Employment Patterns, Higher Education, Private Schools, Public Schools, Social Capital, Student Attitudes, Student College Relationship

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Audience: Administrators; Practitioners

Language: English

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