Bourdieu’s First Year: First-Generation Students, Habitus, and Retention

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dc.contributor.authorSly, Jordan
dc.date.accessioned2021-06-08T17:03:47Z
dc.date.available2021-06-08T17:03:47Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.descriptionpresentation paper read at CUA's Bridging the Spectrum Conference 2017en_US
dc.description.abstractThis presentation will investigate the use of theory, in particular Pierre Bourdieu’s Habitus, in researching library populations and developing a complex, multi-dimensional understanding of an important library community. By utilizing the framework of Habitus, we seek to investigate Pierre Bourdieu’s thesis of Habitus, which is to say, a social theory of determinism that centralizes behavior without essentializing groups. The aim of the project is to study first-generation students and the issue of retention. Habitus, in many respects, speaks to an unwritten language, sense, or code (le sens practique) in which certain members of a group are naturally and unconsciously conversant and which other members must constantly use cognitive energy to work within. The hope is to investigate some aspects of this language by studying both college-normative students (i.e., those for whom college was a foregone conclusion) and first-generation students to understand, perhaps, an aspect of the difference in experience and to use some of the findings to propose some sort of library intervention.en_US
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/plqh-xy5i
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/27139
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.relation.isAvailableAtDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_us
dc.relation.isAvailableAtUniversity of Maryland Librariesen_us
dc.relation.isAvailableAtUniversity of Maryland (College Park, MD)en_us
dc.subjecthabitusen_US
dc.subjectfirst-generation studentsen_US
dc.titleBourdieu’s First Year: First-Generation Students, Habitus, and Retentionen_US
dc.typePresentationen_US

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