Higher Education Choice in China: Social Stratification, Gender and Educational Inequality

ISBN-13: 9781138580138 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 176 str.

Xiaoming Sheng

Opis

Drawing from an empirical study based on Bourdieu’s theory, this book discusses higher education choice in China, particularly through examining social issues such as social stratification, parental involvement, gender and educational inequality.

Spis treści

1. Setting the Scene  2. Class and Higher Education Choice  3. Gender and Higher Education Choice  4. Cultural Capital and Class Strategy: How Middle-Class Mothers Make Cultural Capital Work  5. Capital and Social Stratification: Four Social Fractions within Middle Classes  6. Habitus and the Reproduction of Cultural Capital  7. Contributions and Conclusions

O autorze

Xiaoming Sheng has a PhD in Sociology of Education from the University of Cambridge, UK. Prior to her doctoral studies, she was a Research Fellow in the Department of Sociology at Beijing University, China.