Fields of Study, College Selectivity, and Student Inequalities in Higher Education

1997/06/01 by Scott Davies, Neil Guppy · 8 citations
Social Sciences · #Higher Education Research Studies #Higher Education Governance and Development #School Choice and Performance

paper · doi:10.2307/2580677

Abstract

Journal Article Fields of Study, College Selectivity, and Student Inequalities in Higher Education Get access Scott Davies, Scott Davies McMaster University Direct all correspondence to Scott Davies, Department of Sociology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, L8S 4M4. E-mail: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Neil Guppy Neil Guppy University of British Columbia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 75, Issue 4, June 1997, Pages 1417–1438, https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/75.4.1417 Published: 01 June 1997

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