Empirical study on the relationship between family economic status and educational expectation(PDF)
《长安大学学报（社科版）》[ISSN:1671-6248/CN:61-1391/C]
- Issue:
- 2017年06期
- Page:
- 103-110
- Research Field:
- 教育学
- Publishing date:
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- Title:
- Empirical study on the relationship between family economic status and educational expectation
- Author(s):
- LI Meng-zhu
- Department of Sociology, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, Hubei, China
- Keywords:
- family income; economic capital; adolescent; educational expectation; higher education
- PACS:
- C913.5
- DOI:
- -
- Abstract:
- Individuals’ early educational expectations have an important impact on their future educational status. On the basis of previous research on status acquisition model, taking Chinese educational tracking survey data CEPS (baseline data from 2013 to 2014) as the sample and middle school students as research objects, the influence of family income on adolescents’ educational expectations was discussed by using multivariate linear regression and binary logic Steele linear regression method. The research found that adolescents who were born in poor families had higher educational expectation, were more eager go to college and hoped to receive the elitist education of master, doctor and so on; in the selection of vocational education and undergraduate education, the impact of family income was not significant, indicating that adolescents didn’t lower their educational expectations for themselves because of their poor family conditions and choose to enter a second-best college education. The results show that poverty does not necessarily lead to lower educational expectations of adolescents, on the contrary, it is this hard family conditions that motivates adolescents to make them more confident to change the fate of family, achieve upward mobility and have the stronger belief. They hope to achieve social transition by accepting higher education; the policy implication of this lies in actively creating the conditions to help the students from poor families to surmount the unfavorable conditions of themselves and their families, so that they can gain the opportunity to strive for the upper reaches, realize the dream of higher education, and promote the rational and orderly flow of society.
Last Update: 2018-02-07