Internships and the graduate labour market: how upper-middle-class students ‘get ahead’
Internships and the graduate labour market: how upper-middle-class students ‘get ahead’
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实习和毕业生劳动力市场：中上阶层学生如何“取得成功”
DOI：
10.1080/01425692.2021.1886051
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发表时间：
2021
影响因子：
2.1
通讯作者：
B. Mulvey
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作者：
E. Wright;B. Mulvey
在日益拥挤的毕业生劳动力市场，实习已成为提高职业前景的重要手段。本文运用岗位冲突理论，探讨了不同社会阶层背景的大学生如何经历实习，以及对毕业后就业不平等的影响。英国罗素集团的一所大学(n = 50)和一所1992年后的大学(n = 50)对来自三个不同班级的应届本科生进行了100次访谈。这项研究设计使得能够探索最有社会经济特权的学生与其他独立于大学就读的学生之间的差异。调查结果表明，这两所大学的中上阶层学生都能更好地调动家庭资源，逐步积累多个高地位的实习机会，从而在为毕业生劳动力市场做准备的过程中落后于同龄人。有人认为，实习已经成为一种班级战略，目的是在一流大学和知名研究领域的成熟机制之外取得成功。
Abstract Internships have become an important means to enhance career prospects in an increasingly congested graduate labour market. This article used positional conflict theory to explore how university students from different social class backgrounds experience internships, and the implications for inequalities in post-graduation employment. One-hundred interviews were conducted with final-year undergraduates from three different class fractions at a Russell Group university (n = 50) and a Post-1992 university (n = 50) in England. This research design enabled the exploration of differences between the most socio-economically privileged students and others, independent of university attended. The findings demonstrated how upper-middle-class students at both universities were better able to mobilise family resources to progressively ‘stack’ multiple and ‘high-status’ internships, resultantly pulling away from their peers in preparing for the graduate labour market. It is argued that internships have emerged as a class strategy to ‘get ahead’ beyond the well-established mechanisms of elite universities and prestigious fields of study.
DOI：
10.1920/re.ifs.2020.0167
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作者：
Waltmann B
通讯作者：
Waltmann B