Structural Supports for Upward Mobility

Research of the past decade has brought us much closer to understand? ing the factors that lead a substantial, if small, proportion of lower-status youth to avail themselves of the opportunity for a higher education. The answer lies partly in the variables of intelligence and motivation. However, since lower class youth find themselves in a milieu in which going to college is the exception and deviation from pre-existing cultural norms is often met with counter pressures, they must receive information and social support from substirute channels.