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Furuta, Kazuhisa – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2021
A growing number of families around the world are relying on student loans to pay for university under recent cost-sharing policies. However, it remains unclear to what extent university costs and the likelihood of needing student loans affect decisions in the early stages of education. This article examines the influence of parents' attitudes…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Mothers, Paying for College, Student Costs
Is the Role of Cultural Capital in Student Achievement in South Korea Different? A Systematic Review
Choi, Yeonsoo; Kim, Sung won; Hong, Won-Pyo – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2019
Empirical studies focused on cultural capital only emerged since the 2000s in South Korea. This article is the first to conduct a systematic review aiming to shed light on how the theory of cultural capital has been applied in South Korea. Our main goal is to understand: how the cultural capital-students' achievement association in South Korea…
Descriptors: Role, Cultural Capital, Academic Achievement, Parenting Styles
Bodovski, Katerina; Chykina, Volha; Khavenson, Tatiana – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2019
Using newly available data from the Trajectories in Education and Careers Study, the first longitudinal study on a representative sample of high school students in Russia, we examined the importance of investments in human and cultural capital on students' mathematics and reading standardized examinations, as well as on the likelihood of…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Russian, Standardized Tests, Scores
Inzunza, Jorge; Assael, Jenny; Cornejo, Rodrigo; Redondo, Jesus – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2019
Chile is recognized in the educational policy field as one of the first laboratories of neoliberal initiatives. These policies, initiated under the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, did not change with the new democratic governments after 1990. This characteristic led international organizations to promote the Chilean policies in different…
Descriptors: Public Education, Neoliberalism, Authoritarianism, Activism
Andersen, Ida Gran; Andersen, Simon Calmar – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2017
Research in the sociology of education argues that the educational system provides different learning opportunities for students with different socioeconomic backgrounds and that this circumstance makes the educational process an important institutional context for the reproduction of educational inequality. Using combined survey and register data…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Centered Learning, Academic Achievement, Equal Education
Roksa, Josipa; Robinson, Karen Jeong – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2017
While an extensive body of research has examined the role of cultural capital in reproducing social class inequality in educational outcomes, the role of habitus and school context has received less attention in quantitative studies. We attend to this gap in the literature by considering the relationship between cultural capital, habitus, and the…
Descriptors: Cultural Capital, High Schools, College Preparation, School Culture
Carolan, Brian V. – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2016
Building from the classic Wisconsin model of status attainment, this study examines whether a specific style of parenting, concerted cultivation, and a close friend's school-related attitudes and behaviors mediate the relationship between a family's socioeconomic status and their child's academic achievement in the United States. Using a recursive…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, High School Students, Socioeconomic Status, Correlation
Behtoui, Alireza; Neergaard, Anders – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2016
Based on Bourdieu's conceptualization of social capital (the social stratification perspective), this study examines the impact of social capital on the educational outcomes of young people in Sweden, with a focus on the extra-familial aspect of social capital -- that is, social capital generated by parental networks and active membership in…
Descriptors: Social Capital, Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries, Outcomes of Education
Matsuoka, Ryoji – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2015
While shadow education, organized learning activities outside formal school, has grown greatly around the world, the relationship between formal schooling and shadow education has not been well investigated. This study is therefore intended to empirically test whether formal education's structure (i.e. tracking) affects students' shadow education…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Demography, Socioeconomic Status, Tutoring