Sheng, Xiaoming.

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.