Exploring normative frameworks of fairness through (relational) institutional habitus in Oxford's undergraduate admissions process

IF 2.7 2区社会学 Q1 SOCIOLOGY British Journal of Sociology Pub Date : 2024-05-13 DOI:10.1111/1468-4446.13101

Ed Penn

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In the UK's stratified HE system the question of who is able to access the most selective and prestigious universities is fraught with issues of fairness. This paper explores how decision-makers in Oxford's undergraduate admissions process construct norms of fairness and how such norms inform their reflexive considerations and actions around admissions decisions. Framing such norms as multiple institutional habituses, the paper considers how decision-makers compromise and negotiate between institutional habituses in tension. Further, it presents an augmented conception of institutional habitus – the relational institutional habitus – which offers a conceptual tool to make sense of the existence of multiple contested institutional norms and their partial and fragile reconciliation in institutional action.

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通过牛津大学本科生录取过程中的（关系）制度习惯探索公平规范框架。

在英国的分层高等教育体系中，谁能进入最挑剔、最负盛名的大学这一问题充满了公平性问题。本文探讨了牛津大学本科生录取过程中的决策者如何构建公平规范，以及这些规范如何影响他们对录取决定的反思性考虑和行动。本文将此类规范界定为多重制度习惯，探讨决策者如何在紧张的制度习惯之间进行妥协和协商。此外，本文还提出了一个增强的制度习惯概念--关系制度习惯--它提供了一个概念工具，用以理解多种有争议的制度规范的存在及其在制度行动中部分和脆弱的协调。

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British Journal of Sociology SOCIOLOGY-

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