This article offers a tentative exploration of how working‐class students' mobility is affected by the push to enter middle‐class careers and lifestyles, and the pull of their working‐class origins. Based on a nine‐year qualitative longitudinal study of working‐class students at a Canadian university, I will show that few study participants experienced mobility as an uncontested or linear trajectory. Two key storylines can be identified: (a) a story of adjustment, modification and contentment; and (b) a story of conflict, loss, and struggle. For most, educational mobility was tempered by revisions of occupational ambitions, by returns to their home communities and by lifestyle choices that do not fit simple narratives of status mobility. And yet, all expressed a growing sense of self‐confidence, appreciated their education as an experience of personal growth, and achieved on their own terms, in post‐graduate education and newly discovered careers.

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冲突与满足：加拿大工人阶级学生社会流动性的案例研究

本文尝试探索工人阶级学生的流动性如何受到进入中产阶级职业和生活方式的推动以及他们工人阶级起源的拉动。基于对加拿大一所大学的工人阶级学生进行的为期9年的定性纵向研究，我将证明很少有研究参与者将流动性视为无争议或线性的轨迹。可以确定两个关键的故事情节：（a）调整，修改和满足的故事；（b）冲突，损失和斗争的故事。对于大多数人而言，教育野心受到职业野心的修正，返回其家乡社区以及不符合地位流简单叙述的生活方式选择的影响。然而，所有人都表现出越来越强的自信心，