The role of cultural capital in higher education access and institutional choice.

Autor/in	Kosutic, Iva
Titel	The role of cultural capital in higher education access and institutional choice. Paralleltitel: Vloga kulturnega kapitala pri dostopu do visokosolske izobrazbe in institucionalne izbire.
Quelle	In: CEPS journal, 7 (2017) 1, S. 149-169Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2232-2647
URN	urn:nbn:de:0111-pedocs-130156
Schlagwörter	Empirische Untersuchung; Fragebogenerhebung; Bildungsniveau; Soziale Ungleichheit; Reproduktion; Soziale Herkunft; Eltern; Gymnasiale Oberstufe; Schüler; Schulerfolg; Regressionsanalyse; Sozialkapital; Berufsschule; Hochschulzugang; Habitus; Theorie; Bourdieu, Pierre; Kroatien; Zagreb
Abstract	This paper aims to explore social inequalities in school achievement and educational decision-making of the final-year students of secondary schools in the City of Zagreb and Zagreb County, Croatia (N = 534). The theoretical framework of the paper was Bourdieu's theory of cultural and social reproduction (1977a). The main objectives were an analysis of the association between the students' cultural capital and their school achievement and analyses of the predictive power of the cultural capital theory in the context of educational decisions in the transition to tertiary education. In the analysis of school achievement, sequential multiple regression analysis was used, while in the analyses of educational decisions logistic regression analyses were performed (binary and multinomial logistic regression). The results indicated that cultural capital had statistically significant correlation with school performance. Among the cultural capital indicators, statistically significant predictors of the probability of the intention to enroll. into vocational higher education were the material dimension of cultural capital and naturalness of higher education aspirations of students. For the prediction of the probability of intention to enroll in university, significant predictors were embodied cultural capital, the naturalness of higher education aspirations of students, and father's educational level. The study results on a selected sample of graduates tend to support Bourdieu's theory of cultural reproduction through education. (DIPF/Orig.).
Erfasst von	DIPF \| Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsforschung und Bildungsinformation, Frankfurt am Main
Update	2017/3