Impacts of Cultural Capital on Student College Choice in China

Impacts of Cultural Capital on Student College Choice in China
ISBN-10
0739134434
ISBN-13
9780739134436
Category
Education
Pages
224
Language
English
Published
2011-08-16
Publisher
Lexington Books
Author
Lan Gao

Description

This study draws upon cultural capital theory and exploits 25 individual cases of students in a middle-size city in China in order to understand the patterns of college planning process of students with different socio-economic status. This study will enrich cultural capital theory by applying it to the transitional period of China in which the transformation of classes is complex and distinctive and also contribute to the understandings of the impacts of class-based cultural capital on student college-going behavior in China.

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