1st Edition
Higher Education Choice in China Social stratification, gender and educational inequality
By Xiaoming Sheng
Copyright 2014
188 Pages
5 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
186 Pages
5 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
186 Pages
5 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Much of the existing research on parental involvement and higher education choice examines the difference between the working class and the middle class, but little literature looks at different factions within the social classes. This book discusses higher education choice in China, particularly through the examination of social issues such as social stratification, parental involvement, and... Read more
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 class strategy: Four social fractions within Chinese middle classes 6. Habitus and the reproduction of cultural capital 7. Contributions and conclusions
Biography
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.
