Based on existing trends, predict how the graduate labour market may change in the next 30 years’ time. Please use the readings attached as references. As well as additional sources. Word count is excluding bibliography, Harard style citation.
Some useful journal articles for assessment 2
Ingram, N. and Allen, K. (2019) ‘Talent-spotting’ or ‘social magic’? Inequality, cultural sorting and constructions of the ideal graduate in elite professions, The Sociological Review, 67:3, pp. 723-740.
Abrahams, J. (2019) Honourable mobility or shameless entitlement? Habitus and graduate employment, British Journal of Sociology of Education, 38:5, pp. 625-640.
Abrahams, J. and Ingram, N. (2013) The Chameleon Habitus: Local students’ negotiations of a multiple fields, Sociological Research Online, 18 (4) 2. http://www.socresonline.org.uk/18/4/21.html
Bathmaker, A-M (2021) Constructing a graduate career future: Working with Bourdieu to understand transitions from university to employment for students from working-class backgrounds in England, European Journal of Education, 56:1, pp.78-92.
Glaesser, J. and Cooper, B. (2013) ‘Using Rational Action Theory and Bourdieu’s Habitus Theory Together to Account for Educational Decision-making in England and Germany’, Sociology, 48:3, 463-481.
Shilling, C. (1992) Schooling and the Production of Physical Capital, Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 13:1, 1-19.
Bathmaker, A.M., Ingram, N., Abrahams, J., Hoare, A.,Waller, R. and Bradley, H. (2016) Higher Education, Social Class and Social Mobility: the degree generation (Palgrave Macmillan).
Boliver, V. (2011) Expansion, differentiation, and the persistence of social class inequalities in British higher education, Higher Education, 61: 229-242.
Brown, P. (1999) Globalization and the political economy of high skills. Journal of Education and Work 12(3), pp. 233-251. (10.1080/1363908990120302).
Brown, P. (2003) ‘The Opportunity Trap: Education and employment in a global economy’, European Educational Research Journal, 2: 1 pp.141-179.
Brown, P., Lauder, H. and Ashton, D. 2011 The Global Auction; the broken promises of education, jobs and income. Oxford: OUP.
Brown, P., Lauder, H. and Cheung, S.Y. (2020) The Death of Human Capital? Its failed promise and how to renew it in an age of disruption. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Skills (1991). Higher education: A new framework. London: HMSO.
Finn, K. (2017) Relational transitions, emotional decisions: new directions for theorising graduate employment, Journal of Education and Work, 30:4, 419-431, DOI: 10.1080/13639080.2016.1239348.
Friedman, S and Lauriston, D. 2020 The Class Ceiling, Bristol: Policy Press.
Goldthorpe JH. (2016) Social class mobility in modern Britain: changing structure, constant process. Journal of the British Academy, 4, 89–111. DOI: 10.5871/jba/004.089
Harrison, N. and Waller, R. (2018) Challenging discourses of aspiration: the role of expectations and attainment in access to higher education British Education Research Journal 44 (5) pp. 914-938
Ingram, N. and Gamsu, S. (2022) Talking the Talk of Social Mobility: the political performance of a misguided agenda, Sociological Research Online. https://doi.org/10.1177/13607804211055493
Kim, J. (2011) Global cultural capital and global positional competition: international graduate students’ transnational occupational trajectories, British Journal of Sociology of Education, 37:1, 30-50.
Loveday, V. (2014) ‘Working-class participation, middle-class aspiration? Value, upward mobility and symbolic indebtedness in higher education.’ The Sociological Review 63 3 570-588.
Waller, R., Holford, J., Jarvis, P., Milana, M. and Webb, S. (2014) Widening participation, social mobility and the role of universities in a globalized world, International Journal of Lifelong Education 33 (6), pp. 701-704.
Bathmaker, A.M., Ingram, N. and Waller, R. (2013) ‘Higher education, social class and the mobilisation of capitals: recognising and playing the game’, British Journal of Sociology of Education 34 (5/6) pp. 723-743.
Bowers-Brown, T., Ingram, N., & Burke, C. (2019). Higher education and aspiration. International Studies in Sociology of Education, 28 (3-4), 207-214.
Brown, P., and Tannock, S. (2009) ‘Education, Meritocracy and the Global War for Talent’, Journal of Education Policy 24 pp. 377–392
Papafilippou, V., and Bentley, L. (2017) ‘Gendered transitions, career identities and possible selves: the case of engineering graduates’, Journal of Education and Work, 30(8): 827-839.
Chevallier, A. (2007) ‘Education, Occupation and Career Expectations: Determinants of the Gender Pay Gap for UK Graduates’, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 69(6): 819-842.
Roberts, J., Noden, P., West, A. and Lewis, J. (2016) Living with the parents: the purpose of young graduates’ return to the parental home in England, Journal of Youth Studies, 19:3, 319-337, DOI: 10.1080/13676261.2015.1072618
Holdsworth, C. (2009). ‘Going away to Uni’: Mobility, modernity, and independence of English higher education students. Environment and Planning A, 41, 1849–1864
Clayton, J. Crozier, G. & Reay, Diane (2009) Home and away: risk, familiarity and the multiple geographies of the higher education experience, International Studies in Sociology of Education, 19:3-4, 157-174, DOI: 10.1080/09620210903424469
Cunningham, E. and Christie, F. (2019) “There’s no place like home: an exploration of graduate attitudes toward place and mobility. Bristol: Prospects Luminate. https://luminate.prospects.ac.uk/no-place-like-home-graduate-attitudes-toward-place-and-mobility
Abrahams, J., & Ingram, N. (2013) The Chameleon Habitus: Exploring Local Students’ Negotiations of Multiple Fields. Sociological Research Online, 18 (4), 2. https://www.socresonline.org.uk/18/4/21.html
Allen, K., and S. Hollingworth. 2013. “‘Sticky Subjects’ or ‘Cosmopolitan Creatives’? Social Class. Place and Urban Young People’s Aspirations for Work in the Knowledge Economy.” Urban Studies 50: 499–517.
Tomlinson, M. (2008) ‘The degree is not enough’: students’ perceptions of the role of higher education credentials for graduate work and employability, British Journal of Sociology of Education, 29:1, 49-61, DOI: 10.1080/01425690701737457.
Tomlinson, M. (2017), ‘Forms of graduate capital and their relationship to graduate employability’, Education and Training, Vol. 59 No. 4, pp. 338-352
Office for National Statistics (2021) Graduates’ labour market outcomes during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic: occupational switches and skill mismatch. https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/employmentandemployeetypes/articles/graduateslabourmarketoutcomesduringthecoronaviruscovid19pandemicoccupationalswitchesandskillmismatch/2021-03-08
Moreau, M.P. and Leathwood, C. (2006) ‘Graduates’ employment and the discourse of employability: a critical analysis. Journal of Education and Work’ 19(4): 305–324.
Brooks R. and Abrahams J. 2020. “European Higher Education Students: Contested Constructions.” Sociological Research Online. December 2020. doi:10.1177/1360780420973042
Burke, C. (2015) Culture, Capitals and Graduate Futures: Degrees of Class, London: Routledge and Society for Research into Higher Education.
Burke, C., Scurry, T. & Blenkinsopp, J. (2019) ‘Navigating the graduate labour market: The impact of social class on student understandings of graduate careers and the labour market’, Studies in Higher Education, 45:8, 1711-1722.
Boliver, V. (2011) Expansion, differentiation, and the persistence of social class inequalities in British higher education, Higher Education, 61: 229-242.