Inequality and access to elite universities in China: reexamining the interacting multiple capitals model

Zhang, Yanan; Wang, Yijie

doi:10.1080/03075079.2019.1711042

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“…In terms of socioeconomic background, respondents in this sample are more likely to come from families with parents who have bachelor’s degrees, urban areas, eastern provinces, Han ethnicity, higher-ranking schools, and single-child families. These findings are consistent with previous research about the critical roles of family backgrounds and school quality in shaping higher education opportunities in contemporary China (Sheng 2017; Wu 2016; Ye 2015; Zhang and Wang 2021).…”

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Graduate School, Work, or Unclear? Gender Differences in Post-college Plans among China’s Recent College Students

Yao

2022

Sociological Perspectives

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Women are becoming the majority in China’s universities and colleges. This study examines gender differences in post-college plans of China’s college students under the new social context. Drawing on survey data from college students across 15 universities in Beijing, this study identifies a gendered post-college planning process. Descriptive findings show that the majority of students plan to go to graduate school, while women are less likely to have a graduate school plan and more likely to be unclear about their future than men. Multivariate analyses show that these gender gaps can be partly attributed to women’s underrepresentation in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields. Moreover, family socioeconomic resources and anticipated parenthood timing are associated with post-college plans, and these associations are more pronounced among women. This paper discusses the implications of these findings for research on the formation of gender stratification in education and career in the global context of women’s progress in education.

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Graduate School, Work, or Unclear? Gender Differences in Post-college Plans among China’s Recent College Students

Yao

2022

Sociological Perspectives

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“…SES inequalities in the transition are also partly a result of SES differences in capital throughout their formal education. For example, students from lower SES backgrounds are less likely to be enrolled at high-status post-secondary institutions than students from higher SES backgrounds (Jerrim et al, 2015; Zhang & Wang, 2020). As a result, these graduates often end up in a vicious circle, making it difficult to obtain and accumulate resources.…”

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Socioeconomic Differences in the Transition From Higher Education to the Labour Market: A Systematic Review

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2022

Journal of Career Development

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The transition from higher education to the labour market is considered an important and uncertain life stage wherein young adults exchange an academic environment for an often-chaotic entry into the labour market. Specifically, for graduates with a lower socioeconomic status (SES), this transition involves several difficulties. Investigating these persisting SES differences in the transition is becoming more relevant given the increasing participation of students from lower SES backgrounds in higher education. This systematic review studies SES differences in the transition by looking through the lens of resource acquisition. The results demonstrate that graduates from lower SES backgrounds have more difficulty finding suitable employment and often experience lower job quality. Moreover, our findings show that the strong interdependence between the importance of different forms of capital and the (implicit) symbolic value attached to these capitals makes it difficult for graduates from lower SES backgrounds to overcome barriers in the transition.

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“…Hu and Wu (2021) show that cultural capital can promote one's probability of attending an elite university through IFAP but fail to do so through the NCEE route. Zhang and Wang (2021) suggest that cultural capital cannot work alone but can positively affect elite university attendance when working with social capital.…”

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Cultural capital and higher education inequalities in contemporary China

2023

Sociology Compass

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The relationship between cultural capital endowment and higher education inequalities can be better understood by approaching it in a non‐Western socio‐cultural order. This article brings together empirical studies on this theme in the social context of China. The examination‐oriented higher education system and the supplementary independent freshman/women recruitment complicate the role of cultural capital, entailing positive, null, or adverse effects. Although cultural capital offers little help for elite university attendance, it is linked to the preference of liberal arts majors via the performance in the standardized test. Cultural capital matters for the stratification of the higher education process concerning one's attitudes toward love and social capacities. Existing studies also present evidence for the heterogeneous returns of cultural capital and description of failed cases of middle‐class students and successful cases of disadvantaged students. Future directions of research are discussed.

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Inequality and access to elite universities in China: reexamining the interacting multiple capitals model

Cited by 12 publications

References 53 publications

Graduate School, Work, or Unclear? Gender Differences in Post-college Plans among China’s Recent College Students

Graduate School, Work, or Unclear? Gender Differences in Post-college Plans among China’s Recent College Students

Socioeconomic Differences in the Transition From Higher Education to the Labour Market: A Systematic Review

Cultural capital and higher education inequalities in contemporary China

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