Cultural and Human Capital, Information and Higher Education Choices

Autor/inn/en	Davies, Peter; Qiu, Tian; Davies, Neil M.
Titel	Cultural and Human Capital, Information and Higher Education Choices
Quelle	In: Journal of Education Policy, 29 (2014) 6, S.804-825 (22 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0268-0939
DOI	10.1080/02680939.2014.891762
Schlagwörter	Cultural Capital; Human Capital; Higher Education; College Choice; Academic Aspiration; Parent Background; Educational Benefits; Socioeconomic Status; Secondary School Students; Questionnaires; Student Surveys; Student Characteristics; Factor Analysis; Robustness (Statistics); Student Participation; Foreign Countries; Users (Information); United Kingdom (England) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Humankapital; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Studienortwahl; Elternhaus; Bildungsertrag; Socio-economic status; Sozioökonomischer Status; Sekundarschüler; Fragebogen; Schülerbefragung; Faktorenanalyse; Widerstandsfähigkeit; Schülermitarbeit; Schülermitwirkung; Studentische Mitbestimmung; Ausland; Benutzerprofil; Nutzer
Abstract	This study examines ways in which economic and sociological explanations of higher education (HE) choices may intersect through student's use of information. We find substantial positive associations between intention to go to university in England and each of: (i) parents' education; (ii) cultural capital; and (iii) expectations of the size of the graduate premium. We also find an association between beliefs about the size of the graduate premium and cultural capital. These results support an integrated model of participation in HE in which social and economic factors are treated as complementary rather than competing explanations. The results run counter to previous research which has found that associations between participation in HE and socio-economic status (SES) largely disappear once students' attainment is taken into account. One policy implication of this research is that some indicators of SES (notably household income, eligibility for free school meals or parental occupation) are sub-optimal for interventions to widen participation in HE. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10