ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the conversion factors to present the full capabilities-based social justice framework for the transition to university. This centrality of diversity is a further reason why the capabilities approach is particularly helpful for exploring inequality and social justice in higher education, where one can see a growing diversity of the student body globally. Understanding the factors that influence the conversion of resources into capabilities for the diverse body of first-year students at university is one means of doing this. Rather, we need to understand the social conditions that enable or constrain their development and this can be done. The chapter also examines the realm of social conversion factors which are social institutions, policies, social norms, family norms, patriarchy, gender roles, power relations, and so on. The final group of social conversion factors that emerged as relevant to the transition to university were those related to gender.
