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"Introduction." Research in Post‐Compulsory Education, 12(3), pp. 277–278
Notes
1. Galland and Oberti (Citation2000) remind us that the structures observed by Bourdieu are not now representative of French higher education where working‐class students now hold up to 25% of places. Furthermore, they argue that images of the student as ‘idle dilettante does not seem to correspond to reality’ (Galland & Oberti, Citation2000, p. 110) as a direct rebuttal of Bourdieu (although the latter does not actually assume this to be the case—it is only a manifestation of certain types of social capital that can ‘afford’ to behave like that, while the working‐class higher education habitus is to work hard as symbolic gratitude).