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Title: 'Some People May Feel Socially Excluded and Distressed': Finnish Business Students' Participation in Extracurricular Activities and the Accumulation of Cultural Capital
Language: English
Authors: Isopahkala-Bouret, Ulpukka (ORCID 0000-0002-8535-8874), Siivonen, Päivi (ORCID 0000-0003-1634-5188), Haltia, Nina (ORCID 0000-0002-2139-1405)
Source: Journal of Education and Work. 2023 36(1):52-64.
Availability: Routledge. Available from: Taylor & Francis, Ltd. 530 Walnut Street Suite 850, Philadelphia, PA 19106. Tel: 800-354-1420; Tel: 215-625-8900; Fax: 215-207-0050; Web site: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals
Peer Reviewed: Y
Page Count: 13
Publication Date: 2023
Document Type: Journal Articles
Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education
Postsecondary Education
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Graduates, Business Education, Extracurricular Activities, Student Participation, Cultural Capital, Values Clarification, Preferences, Behavior, Gender Differences, Leadership, Occupational Aspiration, Leadership Role, Student Organizations
Geographic Terms: Finland
DOI: 10.1080/13639080.2022.2162017
ISSN: 1363-9080
1469-9435
Abstract: 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 considering ECA as a site of gendered practices have been scarce. We explore how graduates have accumulated cultural capital through their lived experiences in ECA and how ECA practices construct classed and gendered dispositions and distinctions among graduates. We draw on Bourdieu's conception of cultural capital, as well as contemporary feminist debates over gender and capital. Analysing 32 graduate interviews from four business schools in Finland, we found that through participation in student associations' ECA, our interviewees learned distinctive values, preferences and behaviours. In addition to 'instrumental' cultural capital, such as leadership skills that enhance CV, ECA provided opportunities to accumulate embedded cultural capital and confirm membership/learning to become a member in the professional middle class. Moreover, especially the female interviewees learned to adjust to masculine business culture and develop aspirations towards prestigious job positions.
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