Cultural capital plays an important role in individuals＇ educational and status attainment. On the basis of data from the Shanghai Social Structure Survey of 2008 and from the perspective of broadly defined cultural ...Cultural capital plays an important role in individuals＇ educational and status attainment. On the basis of data from the Shanghai Social Structure Survey of 2008 and from the perspective of broadly defined cultural capital, this paper measures the role of cultural capital of parents and children in the acquisition of social status. The findings are as follows： （1） Higher stocks of cultural capital on the part of parents and children mean more years of schooling for children. （2） Children＇s culatral capital has a significant influence on their status attainment. （3） Controlling for variables like gender and father＇s occupation, the more cultural capital one has, the more likely one is to enter a higher stratum. （4） A family＇s education, cultural ambience and cultural investment have a sustained and stable impact on status attainment. （5） Cultural caoital provides an effective way for the lower strata ofsociety to achieve upward social mobility.展开更多
Despite the expansion of Chinese education and the steady rise in the educational level of urban and rural residents since reform and opening up, the problem of educational inequality has persisted. This study employs...Despite the expansion of Chinese education and the steady rise in the educational level of urban and rural residents since reform and opening up, the problem of educational inequality has persisted. This study employs CGSS2008 data to test the effects of household registration, family socio-economic status, years of parental education, and sibship size on educational opportunity at the three stages of junior middle school, senior middle school and higher education, as well as the changes in these effects over the period 1978-2008. The results show that there is no observable rural-urban disparity in opportunities for continuation to the junior middle school stage, but there is rising inequality in opporUmities for continuation to senior middle school and higher education; the influence of father＇s occupational status on children＇s educational opportunities remains largely the same, indicating that the stratification of educational attainment has not changed markedly since 1978： years of varental education play a marked and increasing role in children＇s educational attainment; and educational inequality due to sibship size also displays a rising tendency. To understand the structure and evolution of inequality in Chinese education since reform and opening up, it is necessary to study the micro-level mechanisms affecting residents＇ educational decision-making.展开更多
基金one of the achievements of a General Project of the Humanities and Social Sciences(08JA840020) established by the Ministry of Educationa General Project of Shanghai Social Sciences Planning (2008BSH004).+1 种基金sponsored by the Key Project of Philosophy and Social Sciencesof the Ministry of Education (08JZD0024)Shanghai 085 Project of Local Universities "Social Development of the Metropolis and the Construction of a Smart City"
文摘Cultural capital plays an important role in individuals＇ educational and status attainment. On the basis of data from the Shanghai Social Structure Survey of 2008 and from the perspective of broadly defined cultural capital, this paper measures the role of cultural capital of parents and children in the acquisition of social status. The findings are as follows： （1） Higher stocks of cultural capital on the part of parents and children mean more years of schooling for children. （2） Children＇s culatral capital has a significant influence on their status attainment. （3） Controlling for variables like gender and father＇s occupation, the more cultural capital one has, the more likely one is to enter a higher stratum. （4） A family＇s education, cultural ambience and cultural investment have a sustained and stable impact on status attainment. （5） Cultural caoital provides an effective way for the lower strata ofsociety to achieve upward social mobility.
基金is the outcome of "A Study of the Impact of Modern Education on Social Stratification and Mobility"(CFA090096),a topic for young scholars of education under the 11th Five-year Plan of the National Social Science Fund,with support from both the "Program for Supporting Outstanding Talent of the New Century"(2011) of the Ministry of Education and "Research on Educational Equality in China,"a major Shandong University project in the humanities and social sciences
文摘Despite the expansion of Chinese education and the steady rise in the educational level of urban and rural residents since reform and opening up, the problem of educational inequality has persisted. This study employs CGSS2008 data to test the effects of household registration, family socio-economic status, years of parental education, and sibship size on educational opportunity at the three stages of junior middle school, senior middle school and higher education, as well as the changes in these effects over the period 1978-2008. The results show that there is no observable rural-urban disparity in opportunities for continuation to the junior middle school stage, but there is rising inequality in opporUmities for continuation to senior middle school and higher education; the influence of father＇s occupational status on children＇s educational opportunities remains largely the same, indicating that the stratification of educational attainment has not changed markedly since 1978： years of varental education play a marked and increasing role in children＇s educational attainment; and educational inequality due to sibship size also displays a rising tendency. To understand the structure and evolution of inequality in Chinese education since reform and opening up, it is necessary to study the micro-level mechanisms affecting residents＇ educational decision-making.
