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Direct linkIsopahkala-Bouret, Ulpukka; Siivonen, Päivi; Haltia, Nina – Journal of Education and Work, 2023
A growing number of scholars have investigated how extracurricular activities (ECA) are intimately tied to graduates' positional competition and enhancement of employability. Prior studies have shown that the strategic tendency towards ECA especially applies to privileged, high-achieving students from a high-status university. Yet studies…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Graduates, Business Education, Extracurricular Activities
Haltia, Nina; Isopahkala-Bouret, Ulpukka – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2023
Working-class students often face more challenges in securing graduate-level jobs than their middle-class peers. This paper applies the concept of boundary crossing in studying the experience of Finnish business graduates from a working-class background (n = 27) and asks what types of boundaries they have faced and how they have managed them on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Graduates, Business Administration Education, Working Class
Haltia, Nina; Isopahkala-Bouret, Ulpukka; Mutanen, Heli – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2023
Previous studies have associated participation in higher education with the formation of middle-class advantages. Studies have shown that graduates from affluent family backgrounds gain more advantages from graduate degrees and secure better job opportunities than their less privileged counterparts. Drawing on the Bourdieusian framework, this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Graduates, Business Administration Education, Cultural Capital
