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Tisch Library Undergraduate Research Award Winner, 2016. Using interviews and ethnographic observations, this study analyzes the ways the Tufts University career center engages with and understands issues of social mobility. Sociological literature shows that higher education and job markets often perpetuate social inequality, rather than operating purely on merit. As a prominent institution ... read morefacilitating the transition between these realms, career centers play an important, but unexplored role in creating unequal social outcomes. I found that, while the Tufts center did not actively exclude students, it facilitates a broad system of passive exclusion. By largely ignoring differences among students, the career center furthered the advantages of students coming in with more social and cultural capital. This passive exclusion manifested itself in the ability to access the career center, the skills promoted by the center, and the language the center’s staff used. I conclude by examining the ways this system decreases social mobility and its impacts on systematic inequality.read less
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