The ethnographic study of Christian Brothers College, Newburyport described here is the joint undertaking of a Deakin University research team forming part of a continuous research project: Schools as Negotiated Realities. The data from that research, presented in this paper, relate to the way students of CBC gain entry into the labour market. From the evidence revealed by the data, cultural capital or cultural resources play a significant part in the way students obtain access into the workplace. The paper then develops the theoretical arguments of such scholars as Bourdieu, Passeron, Collins, and Granovetter to help explain and make sense of the data.
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