Social origin and educational attainment in China: a historical analysis of 70 birth cohorts

The Journal of Chinese Sociology

Xiaotian Feng¹  Changchun Fang¹ 

[1] Department of Sociology, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China;

关键词: Educational attainment;    Social origin;    Ascribed factors;    Historical change;    Educational inequality;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s40711-020-00131-w

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

The impact of social origin on educational attainment is conditioned on the social context in which people live. In recent decades, with changes in the Chinese society, how has the impact of social origin on educational inequality changed? Based on an analysis of 70 birth cohorts, this study details the effect of social origin on educational inequality and its trends over the past 70 years. The results of this study also indicate that the historical stages hypothesis (HSH) and model-shift hypothesis (MSH) emphasized in previous studies cannot fully describe the historical changes in educational inequality. In addition to macrosocial processes, there may exist other structural factors that also affect educational inequality but are neglected. The social context and its transformation, which shaped the relationship between social origin and educational inequality, need to be examined in more detail.

【 授权许可】

CC BY