How does ''culture'' become ''capital''? Cultural and institutional struggles over ''character and personality'' at Harvard

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The question of how nonacademic factors have a significant role in undergraduate admissions at elite American universities is addressed employing an analysis of primary documents relating to changes in admission policies at Harvard College between 1945 and 1965. It is argued that in relatively autonomous areas, cultural capital is created by the relations of cultural qualities and economic classes and also through specific intra- and extra-institutional struggles within the field in question.

Forecasts, trends, outlooks, Colleges & Universities, Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools, Colleges and universities, Forecasts and trends, Universities and colleges, Market trend/market analysis, College admissions, Harvard University

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The trouble with the multiethnic placement act: An empirical look at transracial adoption

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An empirical look at transracial adoption debate is presented by observing the infertility support group meetings and conducting face-to-face interviews with a group of White, economically privileged, infertile women. The findings complicate many of the assumptions that underscored the dominant discourse surrounding the 1994 passage of the Multi Ethnic Placement Act (MEPA) and its 1996 amendment the Interethnic Adoption Provision (IEP).

Analysis, Reverse discrimination, Interracial adoption, Children, Adopted, Adopted children

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