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Rural Trajectories: Investigating the Relationship between Space, Resources and University Enrollment

Whiteside, Jasmine L, Whiteside
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu154321435050285

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2018, Master of Arts, Ohio State University, Sociology.
This analysis addresses the role of geographic location, rurality in particular, on the trajectories first-generation college students. I integrate opportunity and resource literatures, which point to background inequalities but focus little attention on space. Analytically, I draw on in-depth interviews with 20 first-generation college students from rural areas. These interviews highlight background disparities as well as the ways in which social, cultural and economic resources have played a part in the academic aspirations and actual trajectories of these students. I find that while some of this was shaped by their race and class background, spatial differences in economic development, geographic isolation and exclusion also played a role. Despite such barriers, some rural poor and first-generation students manage to make it through the college doorways, owing largely to interpersonal encounters that provide a gateway to quality social, cultural and economic resources. Acknowledging the continued importance of geography on educational attainment, even when access to higher education is at its highest, highlights the need for education scholars and policymakers to focus on the psychological and social barriers that not only burden under-resourced urban students, but also isolated rural students who are likewise interested in educational attainment and social mobility.
Vincent Roscigno (Committee Co-Chair)
Kara Young (Committee Co-Chair)
Linda Lobao (Committee Member)
Rachel Dwyer (Committee Member)
42 p.
Educational Sociology; Sociology
rurality; aspirations; trajectories; resources; spatial inequality; racial inequality

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  • Whiteside, Whiteside, J. L. (2018). Rural Trajectories: Investigating the Relationship between Space, Resources and University Enrollment [Master's thesis, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu154321435050285

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Whiteside, Whiteside, Jasmine. Rural Trajectories: Investigating the Relationship between Space, Resources and University Enrollment. 2018. Ohio State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu154321435050285.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Whiteside, Whiteside, Jasmine. "Rural Trajectories: Investigating the Relationship between Space, Resources and University Enrollment." Master's thesis, Ohio State University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu154321435050285

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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