Higher education choice in China social stratification, gender and educational inequality / [electronic resource] :
Xiaoming Sheng.
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2014.
- 1 online resource (vi, 176 p.) : ill.
- Routledge research in Asian education .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Setting the scene -- 2. Class and higher education choice -- 3. Gender and higher education choice -- 4. Cultural capital and class strategy : how middle-class mothers make cultural capital work -- 5. Capital and social stratification : four social factions within the middle classes -- 6. Habitus and the reproduction of cultural capital -- 7. Contributions and conclusions.
9781315814254 (ebook : PDF)
College choice--Social aspects--China. Education, Higher--Social aspects--China. Educational equalization--China. Educational sociology--China. Sex differences in education--China. Social classes--China. Social stratification--China. Universities and colleges--Sociological aspects--China.