Should We Still be Talking About Leaving? A Comparative Examination of Social Inequality in Undergraduate Patterns of Switching Majors

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dc.contributor.authorFerrare, Joseph J.en
dc.contributor.authorLee, You‐Geonen
dc.date.accessed2019-06-20en
dc.date.accessioned2019-08-02T19:30:48Zen
dc.date.available2019-08-02T19:30:48Zen
dc.date.issued2014-11-01en
dc.description.abstractSwitching majors from one field of study to another is often thought to be a natural and productive part of the undergraduate experience—a process by which students find the best fit for their needs, interests, and aspirations. Yet, in fields with strong social closure, such as the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines, students’ decisions to switch their major from one field to another do not always fit the innocence of this functionalist explanation. Instead, many students switch because of conflicts they experience in the social and cultural conditions encountered in these fields (Seymour & Hewitt, 1997). Building from different theories, the authors examine the relationships of why a student may or may not switch from one major to another, when taken together the academic, cultural, economic, and institutional contexts of students’ switching and persistence decisions.en
dc.description.sponsorshipWisconsin Center for Education Researchen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.sourceurlhttps://wcer.wisc.edu/docs/working-papers/Working_Paper_No_2014_05.pdfen
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/92637en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherWisconsin Center for Education Researchen
dc.relation.ispartofseriesWCER Working Paper; 2014-5en
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/en
dc.subjectSTEM careersen
dc.subjecthuman capitalen
dc.subjectrational choice theoryen
dc.subjectacademic environmenten
dc.titleShould We Still be Talking About Leaving? A Comparative Examination of Social Inequality in Undergraduate Patterns of Switching Majorsen
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