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100			_aPunjabi, Shalini _937380
245			_aChasing elite higher education: Shadow education and middle-class strategies of credentialism around the Indian institute of technology, Joint entrance exam
260			_aSociological Bulletin
300			_a71(2), Apr, 2022: p.193-209
520			_aThe higher education system in India is creating newer structures of hierarchy and differentiation to become distinct. This is largely due to the rising demand for professional education, the returns of which are perceived to be higher than a general degree. Middle-class families have always operated within distinctive structural frameworks to contest for social cachet through education. In India, one such arena is the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT). To determine who is meritorious enough to secure an IIT seat, the Joint Entrance Exam (JEE) has become the arbiter where merit is the relative rank of contestants and shadow education a key training site to ace the JEE. This article is based on a sociological analysis of family credentialing strategies around shadow education that prepares aspirants for the IIT-JEE. Drawing on an analysis of the middle class in Delhi, I discuss how these strategies are feeding fodder to the aspirants’ dream of pursuing an IIT degree and exacerbating educational stratification. I also show how the private coaching market in India reinforces this divide by way of a segregation policy which incentivises a few to secure higher ranks in the JEE.- Reproduced
650			_aHigher education, Shadow education, Middle class, Credentalism, IIT-JEE. _935817
773			_aSociological Bulletin
906			_aMIDDLE CLASS
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