The Impact of Economic Capital, Social Capital and Cultural Capital: Chinese Families’ Access to Educational Resources
Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=50311#.VDXgBlfHRK0 Author(s) Jingbo Fan Affiliation(s) School of Public Administration, University of International Business and Economics, Beijing, China . ABSTRACT Family background can influence an individual’s access to educational resources. Specifically, an advantaged family background can promote an individual’s access to educational resources. This study constructs a model to analyze the impact of the economic, social and cultural capital of Chinese families on their children’s education. The results show that all three types of capital have significant effects on individual education but a family’s cultural capital has the strongest eff...